“I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Preface to Love Ballads of the Sixteenth Century (1897) http://books.google.com/books?id=hAiaEy_NVoEC&q=&quot;I+rather+like+the+world+The+flesh+is+pleasing+and+the+Devil+does+not+trouble+me&quot;&pg=PA5#v=onepage. <br class="br">Context: Most Authors cringe and flatter and Fish for compliments. If they fail to get Applause, they say the World is a Scurvy Place and those who dwell therein a Dirty Lot: if they succeed, they give thanks to Nobody, saying they got only what their Meritt entitles them to. But I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.