Buying Power

Famous quotes containing the words buying and/or power:

    I don’t see the good of a country gentleman. Buying and selling;Mthat’s what the world has to go by.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings—as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)