There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money …

Oscar Wilde
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.1047, Wordsworth Editions
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.1047, Wordsworth Editions

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