| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 54370 |
| QUOTATION: | The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946), U.S. essayist, aphorist. “In the World,” Afterthoughts (1931). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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