Famous quotes containing the words opium and/or trade:
“The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon’s gin; out of any businessman’s life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.”
—William Bolitho (1890–1930)
“And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)