Famous quotes containing the word profitable:
“An empty book is like an infants soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.”
—Thomas Traherne (16361674)
“To me no profitable speech sounds ill.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)
“On the most profitable lie, the course of events presently lays a destructive tax; whilst frankness invites frankness, puts the parties on a convenient footing, and makes their business a friendship.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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