Marie Corelli - The Sorrows of Satan (1895)

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Great originality and inspiration, strange to say, seldom endow the millionaire. Inspiration is supposed to come from above, — money from below!

Marie Corelli

A love affair, to be conducted with spirit and enterprise, should always bristle with opposition and difficulty, real or invented.

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To be missed at all when you die, someone must love you very deeply and unselfishly; and unselfish love is rarer to find among mortals than a pearl in a dustbin.

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It often happens that when bags of money fall to the lot of the aspiring genius, God departs and the devil walks in.

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One must have enemies in this world, — that is, if one makes any sort of position, — people without enemies are generally nonentities.

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A moneyless man if he wins a woman's love knows that such love is genuine and untainted by self-interest; but a rich man can never be truly certain of love at all.

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Millionaires are generally such appalling creatures. Fortune, while giving them money, frequently deprives them of both brains and personal attractiveness.

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Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

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