When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck
Cursed be he above all others Whos enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. – Anacreon
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities? – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876
