“ Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer. ”
- Daniel Defoe- Copy
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“ There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.1K
“ All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
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“ Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a halter intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men. ”
- Josiah Quincy- Copy
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