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“‘Tis money that begets money.”
—English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”
—Seventeenth-century English saying.
“The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that there are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“As the proverb says, “a good beginning is half the business” and “to have begun well” is praised by all.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)