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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Wealth

On either side dwells safety and delight;
Wealth on the left, and power on the right.
Cowley.—On Somerset House.

Whose wealth was want.
Spenser.—The Fairy Queen, Book I. Canto IV. Stanza 29.

Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Since riches point to misery and contempt?
Shakespeare.—Timon of Athens, Act IV. Scene 2. (Flavius.)

He who covets wealth disdains to wait.
Juvenal.—Sat. XIV. Line 176. (Gifford.)