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Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.
Vilfredo Pareto
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[Wade: Day I die, Byron, I'm gettin' sprung from hell. ] I might think that too, if I came from the seed of a drunk gravedigger, and the rancid womb of a whore.


— Who: Byron McElroy
— Note: McElroy has this exchange with Ben Wade before the prisoner overpowers him and throws him over a cliff to his death for insulting Wade's mother.

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The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.


— Douglas Jerrold, Jerrold's Wit, "Ugly Trades".

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The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Douglas William Jerrold

— Ugly Trades, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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