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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.


Adam Smith


#consists #enjoyment #greater #parade #part

She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.


Fay Wray


#been #bother #chief #chief justice #did

Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going." Catho Darlington in the book Catho Darlington--Lessons Learned in the Space Age


Sara Marie Hogg


#cool #elementary-school #hideouts #hula-hoops #middle-america

The chief cause of problems is solutions.


Eric Sevareid


#chief #problems #solutions

While still practising law, he'd run a hearse-rental agency. Then, later, he'd bought into a handkerchief factory in Baker Park. Their most famous innovation was the funeral hankerchief, a plain white cotton handkerchief with a black border. Not long afterwards he patented the first black-edged tissue. He'd made millions, apparently, though nobody knew what he'd done with the money. His only extravagance had been to install an elevator in the house, so he could move between floors without getting out of his wheelchair. 'So what did he mean about hearing money?' Jed asked. 'It's his factory across the river. He claims he can hear the money being made.


Rupert Thomson


#funeral-tissue #hearing #hearse #money #money

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!


Chief Seattle


#conservation #nature #quote #nature

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.


Jack Adams


#class #first #first class #got #me

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.


Khalil Gibran


#chief #first #found #hand #heart

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.


Lascelles Abercrombie


#easier #familiar #glorified #hours #listen

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.


Aeschylus


#concern #doors #exists #give #man






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