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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern

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Edmund Burke
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Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
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