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Could we say that a rich miser lives in affluence?
Of this any man, sir, may convince himself, who shall talk to a crew but half an hour; for he shall find few among them, who will not, for a small sum of present money, sell any distant prospect of affluence or happiness.
Ralph had gone into business to make more money for her; but it was plain that the "more" would never be much, and that he would not achieve the quick rise to affluence which was man's natural tribute to woman's merits.
I knew little of the world, and had read books only: I wrote, and fancied perfection in my compositions; when I wanted bread they promised me affluence, and soothed me with dreams of reputation, whilst my appearance subjected me to contempt.
The world abounds in pictures where loving human faculty has lifted ordinary motives into our sympathy; but where the subject is the grandest landscape affluence of the world, effect, in the ordinary sense, ceases to be of value.
Savage, it seems, was so accustomed to live by expedients, that affluence could not raise him above them.
In order to achieve such results it would have been necessary for the human family to coordinate its efforts around an agreed division of labor, share the goods and services produced and move from one level of affluence to a level of abundance.
In both segments, capitalist and socialist, the more gifted, original, sensitive, creative members of this comfort-pampered generation have turned their backs on affluence and security and begun shouting a new slogan: "We want to live!"
We remember when it was first published in 1833, meager, as compared with its present affluence of information.
He owned books that could not be duplicated in California; and he read them, digested their contents, and constantly surprised his cultivated bearers by the affluence of his knowledge, and the fertility of his literary and classic allusion.
There are in affluence a crowd of aristocratic cares and caprices which are highly becoming to beauty.
He has executed his will, leaving the copyright of his manuscript, his sole assets, to his father, who has been in a comparatively humble position of life, but who will now be raised to a condition of affluence.
He was an industrious, enterprising, liberal man, and early acquired a property which for that time was affluence.
To that which I already knew of Rascal's affluence and marriage, he had yet much to add.
They sought not places of ease and affluence, but of privation and suffering.
In very halt and ill-formed letters a sign announces "The Royal Shop," a title certainly savoring of affluence.
Looking over the various manuscripts then in his possession, the "Manuscript found," venerable in its dust, was, upon examination, looked upon as a gold mine, which would restore to affluence the unfortunate publisher.
Browne of course is not to be compared to Clemens in affluence or in range in depicting humorous character-types; but it must be remembered that Clemens has lived thirty active years longer than his predecessor did.
The Indian youth finds himself at once, as if by magic, translated from a state of poverty to one of affluence.
Our roofs were not laid in ashes, and to-day we sit in affluence while they sit in privation.
Though a man may have passed through life without growing rich, he may, by his labor, have contributed to make others so; though he could not pursue the road to affluence himself, he may have been the means of directing others to find it. Burke.
Though in a state of affluence as to this world's wealth, she was an example of plainness and moderation.
For his income, in its leap from zero to a fluctuating two hundred a year, appeared to him as boundless affluence.
Bred in great affluence, and having early succeeded to a splendid inheritance, he showed eagerness to relieve the deserving poor, that he might prove that he had become the master, not the servant of his riches.
Hamilton was a cold, proud man of the world; one who, having lived from his birth in affluence, regarded with a haughty eye all who, without the advantages of rank or wealth, strove to attain a position equal to his own.
By due process of law I was put into possession of her estate, and although this was not by hundreds of thousands of dollars as valuable as my lost treasures, it raised me from poverty to affluence and brought me the respect of the great and good.
Such are the main causes why the Mediterranean continued until the discovery and application of the properties of the magnet, the seat of successive empires so superior to the rest of the world in affluence and power.
This was all due to the affluence of American institutions, that spread the benefits of education broadcast.
All these reformers were virtually working men, though most of them rose to positions of respect and affluence.
The son, who sees that his father is in affluence, and who partakes of the fruits of a whole life of industry, seldom considers that he must continue that industry, otherwise, that the affluence will cease with the life of his father.
By keeping up a certain appearance of affluence and fashion, they assume the obligation to employ servants enough to carry out the design, yet in nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of every thousand, they ignore the duty.
In like manner, the good man who bears the burden of poverty will enter the gate of death lightly loaded, while he who lives in affluence, with ease and comfort, will, doubtless, on that very account find death very terrible.
His works are full of grace and poetic feeling, and worked out with an intellectual completeness of form which gives him an honorable distinction even among those musicians marked by affluence of ideas.
Ordinary forms of greeting had changed to mutual congratulations on affluence.
In this country, the daughter brought up in affluence, may, by some rapid change of fortune, be obliged, upon arriving at maturity, to be among the applicants for whatever employment she may be fitted.
Swartz is now in Augusta, Georgia, living in ease and affluence, like the majority of Southern speculators.
I hope you are not going to turn me out with the rest of the boarders when you roll in affluence.
And the number of his merits multiplied beyond the number of his years; the affluence of all holy charities overflowed in the breast of the boy, and all the virtues met together made their dwelling in his youthful body.
With an affluence for life I have settled down to enjoy the remainder of my days in peace and quietness.
The affluence and the brilliancy of his discourse seemed appropriate to the splendor of the surroundings.
Shelby was staggered, but recalling his affluence, flirted a bill through the opening and neglected to count his change.
To them, if every individual citizen has affluence and ease, the royal coffers are full.
Many who now bask in affluence, would give their ill-acquired eminence to call that jewel without price their own.
He entered upon it in affluence, with a large and remunerative practice.
They patronized him without stint, and made a display of their own affluence in his presence.
I told him what business had been the occasion of my journey, and that this rather than amusements had occupied me; for the rest, that there had been great affluence of company, and no lack of diversions.
As the months passed by, he was the more inclined to follow her wishes, as the few thousands which fell to him at her death enabled him to pay off his more pressing debts and enjoy a temporary feeling of affluence.
We did our best to help them out of our own pittance; but to all of us it was like falling from affluence to penury.
Such is the return which nature yields under this admirable system of management, that half the crop of seven acres is sufficient in general for the maintenance of a family of five persons, and the whole produce supports them all in rustic affluence.
During his early years his family had passed from affluence to penury.
In their visionary leaps to affluence they soared to giddy heights.
Long before he obtained a seat in Parliament he won the esteem of Doctor Johnson, who bore noble testimony to his virtue and talent, and what he especially admired, and called, his "affluence of conversation."
There is reason to believe the inhabitants are afraid of the affluence of foreign travelers.
Affluence for life, guaranteed against any fluctuations of currency, was promised to anyone who could offer, not necessarily an answer, but an idea which should lead to the solution of the problem in hand.
After previous economies of scarcity and limited means of production, human experience at the global scale has brought about a wealth of choices and means of affluence that question the very premise of the family contract.
This is done, and suddenly the imperial court, in spite of its empty coffers, finds itself in affluence.
He would not have been called a wealthy man, as wealth is gauged in the great northern cities, but in this peaceful valley, where needs were simple and diversions sensible, he was regarded as a man of affluence and no little importance.
The towns of the old world have alternations of penury and affluence.
Indeed, in all the colonies no other place was so replete with affluence and comfort.
I left them in the enjoyment of all that happiness which affluence and good breeding procure, and returned towards home, despairing of ever finding my daughter more, but sending a sigh to heaven to spare and to forgive her.
He was once in affluence, but from misfortunes and some imprudence he became reduced in circumstances.
One day the bird was killed, the treasure was found in its nest, and the owner was restored to a state of affluence, of which, if the pearl had not originally been lost, he must have despaired till the end of his days.
And how different everything was now in these days of affluence and adulation!
Alfalfa was purple to the last crop, and an air of affluence pervaded everything.
There are natures that grow by affluence as well as by privation, and that develop their best powers in sunshine.
They display no pride of learning, no affluence of imagination, no pomp of words.
The contrast between affluence and misery may display itself too offensively!
What could break the fall from a position of affluence and power to a condition of penury and insignificance?
He lived in comfort and affluence to a good old age, and had the satisfaction to see his family grow more and more in the estimation of their generous masters, until dogs and men became inseparable companions.
My own actual vision, which had developed with such affluence, was that, in a given case, she could keep up but for a few minutes and was therefore obliged to bring the contact to an end before exposure.
Whether the English Government actually adopted the same policy or not, they assuredly had the credit of doing so; and the sudden accession to wealth and affluence of men who had no visible road to fortune, greatly favored this impression.
Her father had no objection to her choosing between two persons of equal claims to affluence and reputation; this choice she had made, and her father was considered the most proper person to pronounce it.
Hurled in a moment from the lofty summit of affluence to the low and barren vale of poverty!
He is not so wild and far-flying as Bliss Carmen, nor so large and elemental as Joaquin Miller; but he is often as delicate and eerie as Aldrich, and sometimes as warm and rich as Keats in the April affluence of 'Endymion.'
Our family will be raised from penury to affluence, and we shall have done our duty, I am sure.
They seemed drunk with delight that Irene, whom they looked upon as their own daughter, should carry off the palm of purity, whilst affluence, position, and title were for years waiting with restless pride to triumph at its grasp.
With the affluence of Truth, he vanquished error.
It has several schools, two weekly papers, and the study of literature and science is much cultivated and encouraged by the families of affluence and respectability who reside in the town and vicinity.
The young man beheld vast affluence and great prosperity, and wondered at the beauty and loveliness of the damsel.
Yesterday I protested to my affluence; to-day I vouched for the nobility of my family.
There are some thrifty families, who, by some generations of hard saving, have risen to affluence and wealth.
Think, if you can, of the long years of toil I have experienced since that time, and ask if you are right in pulling down about our heads the whole structure of prosperity and affluence that I have been so long in building.
I am afraid that the idleness and affluence of the old slave period have left their stamp on many of our best families.
It was, indeed, a European town we beheld, full of affluence, movement, and gaiety.
Madam, an uncommon series of calamities, which prudence could neither see, nor prevent: the reverse of a whole family from affluence and content to misery and imprisonment; and it adds, that the parties have the honor, remotely, to be allied to you.
In the western world the mind of Christendom expanded to deeper and wider thoughts, a new literature was originated of great richness, affluence and beauty, and gave expression to ideas which, in the primitive period could not have been formed.
The ease of affluence is first assimilated in thought, which acts upon the muscles.
An entire sixpence, he was sure, would mean affluence for evermore.
Though art is above either, the argument is better for affluence than poverty and though he would not have been a greater artist, yet he would have produced greater works of art in proportion to his means.
To the one it has ascribed felicity and affluence; to the other hardship and want.
Rich cotton stuffs tell of the affluence of the Southern soil and the skill of the Northern artisan.
He was in a state of delirious excitement often felt by persons suddenly raised from poverty to affluence.
For the rest, though he could now no more than previously consider offering her a union with a man condemned to a lifelong poverty, there remained for him no task save the simple one of acquiring affluence.
The incorruptible integrity he had displayed was by no means due to affluence.
Instead of that he made a bee-line for America, with the laudable intention of living there "in affluence and honor."
Within a very few years the sale of the History was sufficient to gain for the author a larger revenue than had ever before been known in his country to flow from literature, and to place him in comparative affluence.
Many a millionaire had risen to affluence from infinitely smaller beginnings.
The term accords with the affluence of thought that marks this supplication.
The powerful families of ancient Rome loved to build monuments to their dead by the side of the public road, probably to exhibit at once their affection for their relations and their own power and affluence.
After having struggled through long years of poverty, not extreme, to be sure, but requiring much patient toil and endurance, their property became immensely valuable, and they enjoyed well deserved affluence.