The upper ten thousand Quotes

“It is a standing American joke to say of the biggest possible hoax or canard, 'I read it in a newspaper, and it must be true.”
― Charles Astor Bristed, The upper ten thousand

“A SHBTJRNER did leave Oldport after all,”
― Charles Astor Bristed, The upper ten thousand

“that it is rather the fun of making the money than the money itself which they care for; that when it is made, they spend it freely, and part with it more readily than they earned it; that they are more liberal both in their public and private charities (considering the amount of their wealth, and of the claims upon it) than any nation in the world,—all these traits strangers have been less ready to dwell upon and do justice to.”
― Charles Astor Bristed, The upper ten thousand

“The next thing Americans like to hearing themselves well praised, is to hear somebody, even if it be themselves, well abused;”
― Charles Astor Bristed, The upper ten thousand