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Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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