“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
“The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”
— Virginia Woolf, book To the Lighthouse
Source: To the Lighthouse
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