“Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.” MenWaySelfHelpingFoundWinningBoysEconomicSelf HelpHeroOfficeFortuneStrivePortraitsGalleryBourgeoisVigorousRomanticismPrototypePhilistinesUtilitarianismPlutocracy Author:John Carroll
“A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.” MayGirlSportsWealthBoysFortuneRidiculousIncomePleasantSensibleRespectableMaidsDisagreeableSinglesBoy And GirlSingle WomenOld Maids Book:The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.” SelfEnoughSchoolGirlNextInterestPartyBoysMorningGroupsWords Of WisdomFortunePainfulWideBrokeSelf InterestBack AgainBoy And GirlBroke UpSchool DaysJovial Book:The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
“As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.” WayWellsWould BeAgeTodaySchoolMotherLeftBoysSpecialGeniusPoliticianTenScientistFortunePsychologicalEducatedImmortalityPeculiarBusinessmanFranklinThirteenAndrewCounselingTamedCarnegieBen Franklin Author:John Taylor Gatto
“The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.” LooksChildrenTwoGirlFatherResultsBoysWifeFortuneMy WifeLovelyMagnificentGood Fortune Author:Arthur Rubinstein
“Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.” LittlesStillsProblemBoysFortuneAgricultureArmadillos Author:Jim Hightower