Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christian and a gentleman to appear to despise filthy lucre, whatever his secret opinion of it might be.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, lo… - Rebecca Harding Davis
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, lo…
- Rebecca Harding Davis
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. - Rebecca Harding Davis
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving t… - Rebecca Harding Davis
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving t…
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, clog… - Rebecca Harding Davis
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, clog…
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. - Rebecca Harding Davis
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
No man surely has so short a memory as the American. - Rebecca Harding Davis
No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. - Rebecca Harding Davis
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us. - Rebecca Harding Davis
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at… - Rebecca Harding Davis
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at…
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