
“A poor original is better than a good imitation.”
“A poor original is better than a good imitation.”
Duterte endorses killing corrupt journalists https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/788543/duterte-endorses-killing-corrupt-journalists
as quoted by E. C. Cady, in 'The Art of Johannes Hendrick Weissenbruch' https://ia801702.us.archive.org/33/items/jstor-25540452/25540452.pdf, in 'Brush and Pencil, Volume 12', April 1904, p. 51
“The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style.”
Foreword.
Cf. Thomas Hobbes — "the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short", in Leviathan (1651), Pt. I, Ch. 13.
Cold Comfort Farm (1932)
“It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.”
Proverbs 19:1 http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/proverbs/19/
“Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.”
Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)
“Better a thrifty son-in-law and poor, than a glutton who is rich.”
Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. X.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
clap clap, hurricane of clapping.
Source: blog, 12 April 2009