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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.

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Frances Wright
Age: 57 †
Born: 1795
Born: September 6
Died: 1852
Died: December 13
Philosopher
Writer
City of Dundee
Frances D'Arusmont
Always
Growth
Dollar
Ratios
Men
Rich
Possessed
Estimate
Moral
Possession
Purse
Poor
Dollars
Purses
Penniless
Political
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Possessions
Gradations
Also
Exactly
Earthly
Proportionate
Better
Importance
Richer
Swelling
Feels
Hundred
Cents
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