On your side is every element of what is called respectability: education, opulence, power, rank, connexions.
The men to-day are equally efficient and should not be passed over in favour of those of more opulence or other social status.
Those savings are on a scale to provide genuine opulence in any family world, which indicates that opportunities must exist for additional help.
On many railways they are even better than the first-class carriages, because they are not so stuffy, velvety, and upholstered with the same uncomfortable opulence.
You have only to look about you at the present time to see greed, opulence and corruption taking over.
On such occasions, the objective seemed invariably to be to create an atmosphere of opulence : the more glamorous and expensive the goods consumed, the more successful the outing.
The point isn't that opulence misleads, but rather that we should search for the right measure of opulence.
More ambitious students dream of up to a dozen or more and living out the rest of their days in opulence.
