People who have a lot of money very rarely give it away. Some invisible hand prevents them.
| —Iris Murdoch |
| Henry and Cato |
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From Frank Harris‘s first-person account of the Great Chicago Fire:
Continue reading ‘Price Gouging at Its Best’
Today’s quote is dedicated to all the undergraduates who are contemplating law school:
I cannot understand how any gentleman can be willing to use his intellect for the propagation of untruth, and to be paid for so using it.
| –Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm |
Today’s quote is from my friend Romans Pancs, who is currently entertaining some other friends at his home in Mexico City and writes to report on their activities:
I escaped for a break home when they went to the Museum of Anthropology… No one has been able to explain to me what’s the point of studying failed civilisations when I can study successful ones by visiting Macy’s.
Spoken by a character who has joined the Army in 1942, and has been issued a bombsight:
A bombsight— I hadn’t made pilot but at least I would be riding up front— allotted to me by a government which didn’t trust me with it and so set spies to watch what I did with it, which before entrusting it to me had trained me not to trust my spies nor anybody else respecting it, in a locked black case which stayed locked by a chain to me even while I was asleep— a condition of constant discomfort of course but mainly of unflagging mutual suspicion and mutual distrust and in time mutual hatred which you even come to endure, which is probably the best of all training for successful matrimony.
| —William Faulkner |
| —The Mansion (Volume 3 of the Snopes Trilogy) |
Because what somebody else jest tells you, you jest half believe, unless it was something you already wanted to hear. And in that case, you dont even listen to it because you had done already agreed, and so all it does is make you think what a sensible feller it was that told you. But something you dont want to hear is something you had done already made up your mind against, whether you knowed—knew it or not; and now you can even insulate against having to believe it by resisting or maybe even getting even with that-ere scoundrel that meddled in and told you.
| —William Faulkner |
| —The Town (Volume 2 of the Snopes Trilogy) |
| —published 1957 |
The frontispiece from Differentiable Germs and Catastrophes by Theodore Brocker:
That was the day Father had told the Burdens that Cash Benbow would never be elected Marshal in Jefferson. I don’t reckon the women paid any more attention to it than if all the men had decided that the day after tomorrow all the clocks in Jefferson were to be set back or up an hour.
| —William Faulkner, The Unvanquished |
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