"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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Friday, August 04, 2017
Indifference to Money
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), "My Mental Development," Basic Writings (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 9-22 (at 10; on his grandmother):
She had that indifference to money which is only
possible to those who have always had enough of it.