In 1879, Henry George quoted Carlyle:
The widow is gathering nettles for her children's dinner;
a perfumed seigneur, delicately lounging in the Oeil de Boeuf,
hath an alchemy whereby he will extract from her the third nettle
and call it rent."
Caspar davis
Victoria, B.C.
At 9:54 AM -0700 10/9/98, Tom Walker wrote:
>The bankers and finance ministers killed the goose that laid the golden egg.
>They murmured 'fiscal rectitude' and coddled speculative excess. There they
>sit with goose-grease dripping from their chins wondering how they can
>squeeze a few more from the ravaged carcass on the table.
>
>Soup, anyone?
