When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
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A selected quote by William Blake.
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese
If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does