“Where words prevail not, violence prevails;
But gold doth more than either of them both.”
Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy
Act II, sc. i
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
“You have something that might be more use to me than either gold or power—something that in fact brings both in its train.”
“And what is that?”
The count leaned forward. “Knowledge.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 21, “The Frightened Ones” (p. 491).
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