"Long run" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... heart. It looks like it: here's the Amberson Mansion again, only it's Georgian instead of nondescript Romanesque; but it's just the same Amberson Mansion that my father built long before you were born. The only difference is that it's your father who's built this one now. It's all the same, in the long run." ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... content her. Would it satisfy any woman? He had only to wait and she would ply him with further questions, and, if she were not the woman, would not rest until she had discovered who the other woman was. She would probably help him to some explanation of his adventure in the long run, her curiosity leading her to play the ...
— Princess Maritza • Percy Brebner
... again some time, but I doubt if I should have him arrested. He injured himself more than he did me. I lost a hundred dollars or more, but he lost a good place and his character for honesty. Depend upon it, Walter, honesty is the best policy in the long run." ...
— Walter Sherwood's Probation • Horatio Alger
... gambling-table so arranged that all who enter the casino must play and all must lose more or less heavily in the long run, though they win occasionally ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler
... nature that in the long run the lowliest flowers are not only the best loved, but the oftenest spoken of. Men play the cynic: modest merit goes to the wall, they say; whoever would succeed, let him put on a brazen face and sharpen his elbows. But those who talk in this strain deceive neither themselves nor those ...
— The Foot-path Way • Bradford Torrey
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