Von Wright

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    Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions—the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)