Merchants Coal

Famous quotes containing the words merchants and/or coal:

“You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“... gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hatpin.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)