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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Those cut-uppings is for billionaires, Becky; not for one old lady as 'ain't got much more as a million left after her six dowries is paid." "Yes, I wish I had what you've got over and above that." "That young Rosencrantz is playing you high, Becky, because he sees how high your brother and his wife can fly.
"Oh, I wouldn't be much known over here," he said modestly. "Do you write poetry?" "Oh, not professionally, though it is published. I suppose" he sipped his champagne with his head a little to one side as though judging its quality "I suppose I 've been more or less a dilettante. I've knocked about the world a good bit." "Helene says you're one of these leisure American billionaires like Mr.
The lord and master of so many Editiones Principes, the guardian of this great nursery full of incunabula, did not seem to me like a simple tradesman. I felt that I was in the presence of the literary purveyor of royal and imperial libraries, the man before whom millionaires tremble as they calculate, and billionaires pause and consider. I have recently received two of Mr.
The lord and master of so many Editiones Principes, the guardian of this great nursery full of incunabula, did not seem to me like a simple tradesman. I felt that I was in the presence of the literary purveyor of royal and imperial libraries, the man before whom millionaires tremble as they calculate, and billionaires pause and consider. I have recently received two of Mr.
The Baroness seemed to have a peculiar faculty in choosing extraordinary guests: Peruvians, formerly dictators, now become insurance agents, or generals transformed into salesmen for some wine house; Cuban chiefs half shot to pieces by the Spaniards; Cretes exiled by the Turks; great personages from Constantinople, escaped from the Sultan's silken bowstring, and displaying proudly their red fez in Paris, where the opera permitted them to continue their habits of polygamy; Americans, whose gold-mines or petroleum-wells made them billionaires for a winter, only to go to pieces and make them paupers the following summer; politicians out of a place; unknown authors; misunderstood poets; painters of the future-in short, the greater part of the people who were invited by Prince Andras to his water-party, Baroness Dinati having pleaded for her friends and obtained for them cards of invitation.
Ennis that her dinner-party was composed of more inflammable material, presented more dramatic possibilities, than even she had divined. She embraced Pollen with her smile. "What have you been doing with yourself?" she asked. He lifted long eyebrows and smiled faintly. "Working very hard," he said. "Building behemoths for billionaires?" "Yes." "And the rest of the time?"
The scramble for money, looked at without understanding, is a horrid sight. But horrid also is the sight of a battle that frees slaves. When the battle of money shall end, the score will be on the right side of humanity's ledger. A few forgotten billionaires will have struggled and died. Some millions of men will have died disappointed. But industry will have been brought to perfection.
Why," he continued, warming up, and straightening with a certain pride which he had, "am I not the Columbus of Space? And you my lieutenants," he added, with a smile. "Right you are," cried Jack enthusiastically. "The Columbus of Space, that's the ticket! Where's old Archimedes now? Buried, by Jo! He couldn't go to Venus! And what need we care for your billionaires?"
Just as in the days of Charles V and Philip II, all things yielded to the theologian's misconception of the spiritual life so in these days of the Billionaires all things spiritual and abstract yield to what they call the progress of the universe and the leading of the times.
She told Ben that fortunes in New York could be gauged by the amount of light the individual could afford billionaires had houses standing free, with light on four sides; millionaires had corner houses with light on three sides; while ordinary mortals lived in tunnels more or less magnificent where electric light had often to do duty for the sun.
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