Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker
No. 24. (Rica writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
“After Bjartur had become a person of great worth, even he was prone to admit on occasion that life had sometimes been pretty hard in Summerhouses in the old days, but one has to take a few knocks if one wants to get on, surely, and anyway we never ate other folk's bread. Other folk's bread is the most virulent form of poison that a free and independent man can take; other folk's bread is the only thing that can rob him of independence and the one true freedom.”
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book Two, Part II: Years of Prosperity
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Oscar Levy (1867–1946) German physician and writer
Source: The Revival of Aristocracy (1906), p. 49.
“In one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread with the other.”
Altera manu fert lapidem, panem ostentot altera
Alternate translation: And so he thinks to ‘tice me like a dog, by holding bread in one hand, and a stone, ready to knock my brains out, in the other.
Aulularia, Act II, sc. 2, line 18
Cf. Jesus, [Matthew, 7:9, KJV]: "Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?"
Aulularia (The Pot of Gold)
“Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.”
Henry Fielding book Joseph Andrews
Book IV, Ch. 6
Joseph Andrews (1742)
“A man who can’t read only knows what other folks tell him.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 15.
George Gershwin (1898–1937) American composer and pianist
"The Relation of Jazz to American Music", in Henry Cowell (ed.) American Composers on American Music (1933); reprinted in Gregory R. Suriano (ed.) Gershwin in His Time (New York: Gramercy, 1998) p. 97.
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Letter to Anna (1814-09-28) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
From a letter to Robert W. Gordon (February 4, 1925)
Letters