He asked me, with Socratic irony, whether it were possible in the United States to make a lot of money and still be honest. "It's not possible over here," he said. "You can make a little money and be honest, but you can't make a lot of money without cheating or exploiting somebody."
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Making Money
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), Europe without Baedeker, rev. ed. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966), p. 254 (from Greek Diary: Notes on Liberated Athens):