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"It isn't that but I ought to make some money " The word was a challenge to the Judge. "Don't run with the mob, my boy. The world is money-mad." "I'm not money-mad," said Randy; "I know what I should like to do if my life was my own. But it isn't.

"Future generations will take no interest in you or your millions," she said calmly. "Our civilization will have made such progress by that time that people will merely wonder why we, in our day, tolerated men of your class so long. Now it is different. The world is money-mad.

Forty years before Abraham Lincoln had warned the country when at the close of the war he saw that the race for wealth was already making men and women money-mad. In 1864 he wrote these words: "Yes, we may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its close. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood.

On the other side, if he be mentioned in the Almanach, they give him sashes and decorations. And they credit us with being money-mad! It is not true. It is proved every day in the foreign cables that our love for money is not one-tenth so strong as that which our continental cousins evince." "But if you are not money-mad, why these great fortunes?" dubiously.

When he should see him personally it would be but a question of five minutes' friendly talk and the matter would be ended. Now that he recalled little traits of Bivens's character, he didn't seem such a scoundrel after all just the average money-mad man who could see but one side of life.

It was an indolent, happy life the peons on the estate led, patriarchal in its nature, and far removed from the throb of the money-mad world. They had enough to eat and to wear. There was a roof over their heads. There were girls to be loved, dances to be danced, and guitars to be strummed.

I wonder how many men and women in this money-mad city know that the tide ever ebbs and flows around Manhattan Island at all." "It's wonderful isn't it?" "What dear, the men and women of New York or the tides?" "Both, Jim, when we try to understand them, isn't it all God's work?" "I don't know, child. I sometimes think God made the world and only man or the devil built the cities afterward.

I believe now that a man like you would murder anyone for money sharpen a razor and come up behind his best friend and cut his throat like a sheep I've read of such people. Everyone seems money-mad nowadays. No, no! I may be shameless, but you are far worse. I don't say a word about that other " "Nastasia Philipovna, is this really you? You, once so refined and delicate of speech.

Here, at Oyster Bay, there was some chance of escaping their money-mad and wave-intoxicated family; they could entertain and be entertained by both of the younger sets in that dignified summer resort; they could wander about their own vast estate alone; they could play tennis, sail, swim, ride, and drive their tandem.

The United States of America has been money-mad for a long time, Skinner, but this war is going to spiritualize us and show us that there's a lot more in life than dollar-chasing. Hop to your job, P. D. Q., Skinner, my boy; and as you pass out send Captain Matt Peasley in to me." Matt Peasley came smilingly into his father-in-law's office.