Robert Silverberg (1935) American speculative fiction writer and editor
Short fiction, Homefaring (1983)
“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.”
The Sydney Morning Herald (22 May 1982), as cited in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), edited by Robert Andrews, p. 972
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