"Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold."

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Source : Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

Ridgely Torrence

#Money Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.”
“Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.”
“Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.”
“Authenticity is essential to the soul!”
“Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?”
“Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.”
“English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.”

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