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John Sergeant Wise

"It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors."

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"It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors."

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Donna Grant

"Looking flash without the cash is worthless!"

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Donna Grant

"Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive."

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Donna Grant

"There really is no correlation between age and one's bank balance. I've met wealthy boys and broke men."

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Donna Grant

"To become a filthy rich, first you need to be filthy."

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Donna Grant

"Many a rich man's bed is bigger than many a poor woman's bedroom; his bedroom, her house."

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Donna Grant

"Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it."

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Donna Grant

"Is there any riches like redemption?"

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Donna Grant

"Poor people waste time, rich people save time. Poor people who invest time are no longer poor."

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Donna Grant

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."

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Donna Grant

"I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands."

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John Sergeant Wise
"My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia."

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John Sergeant Wise
"However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children."

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John Sergeant Wise
"In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now."

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John Sergeant Wise
"THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died."

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John Sergeant Wise
"As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school."

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John Sergeant Wise
"That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President."

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John Sergeant Wise
"I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years."

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John Sergeant Wise
"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."

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John Sergeant Wise
"This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better."

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John Sergeant Wise
"And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood."

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