“The first hundred thousand—that was hard to get; but afterwards it was easy to make more.”
Quoted in James Parton (1865), Life of John Jacob Astor
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Da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.
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V, lines 8–7
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