“When friends do business, there is no need of contracts. Unfortunately, there are no friends in business.”

— Morris West

Kenji Tanaka quoting a saying he heard from a (presumably fictitious) "very modern Zen master" in Ch. 13, p. 232
The Ringmaster (1991)

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Australian writer 1916–1999

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