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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt
Education, Teacher, Money
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.298

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

William Hazlitt
Money, Cost, Wealth
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

William Hazlitt
Money, People, Secret
William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.132

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.

William Hazlitt
Money, Men, Vacuums
William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”

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