You were dependent on wealth, now you are dependent on the wealthy; you are still a slave and a poor man into the bargain.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

'Well, Sir, there was a Jew came down, offering wagers, not, you see, to gentlemen, Sir, but to poor fellows.
— from The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The opening of the bridge was one of those memorable days of which New York has had so many in her brief history, a day when President and Governor and many lesser dignitaries, who have now passed from the stage, strutted their little hour to hail the passing of a milestone, and there were “fireworks in the evening.”
— from Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope by John Kimberly Mumford

The youth, after arranging his thoughts, continued thus: “From the day on which, notwithstanding your gloomy predictions, I went to the fountain of the Poplars, and crossing its waters recovered the stag which your superstition {27} would have let escape, my soul has been filled with a desire for solitude.
— from Romantic legends of Spain by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Such a display of wickedness, naked, yet not ashamed, such cool, judicious, scientific atrocity, seemed rather to belong to a fiend than to the most depraved of men."
— from Principles of Freedom by Terence J. (Terence Joseph) MacSwiney

Why it should be admirable, or even commonly honest, to undertake duties of whose nature you are ignorant, neither men nor women seem ever to have decided, and the illusion is beginning to pass.
— from Sex and Common-Sense by A. Maude (Agnes Maude) Royden

The advance system is a curse to the South, inciting to extravagance and leading to dreams of wealth not yet created; it is especially bad for the Negro, who is at his best as a renter, or still more as the owner of land.
— from The Southern South by Albert Bushnell Hart

He was a Chicago millionaire's son and she was the daughter of wealthy New York people.
— from The Daughter of Anderson Crow by George Barr McCutcheon