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You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.
— Charles Foster Kane · Citizen Kane
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker imagines that being less wealthy might have allowed greater personal achievement. That reversal challenges the assumption that riches necessarily fulfil potential. Read as regret or self-questioning, the remark names wealth as a possible obstacle without explaining exactly how it shaped the speaker's life.
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