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  • I earn it by enjoying such authorityand prestige that people will not buy expensive Italian pictures without myapproval.

    - Bernard Berenson
    Comment on his income, addressed to the Internal Revenue Service. Quoted in The Making of a Legend (1987).

  • It's full time work being on social security. They really make you earn your living.

    - Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
      The Heart of the Country,'Driven Mad'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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