Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Money
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
“If there is no more market for ancient Greek, there should be no more ancient Greek. If there are no jobs for historians, there should be no history. If there is no money in brains, there should be no brains - except for the brains that make money.”
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Four, Screw U or Hate My Professors, p. 131
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