“A business with an income at its heels
Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.”
Source: Retirement (1782), Line 615.
“Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.”
— Barbara W. Tuchman, book A Distant Mirror
Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 389
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