To go back to the carved oak question, they must have had very fair notions of the artistic and the beautiful, our great-great-grandfathers. Why, all our art treasures of to-day are only the dug-up commonplaces of three or four hundred years ago. I wonder if there is any real intrinsic beauty in the old soup-plates, [...]
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On Antiques
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged antiques, beauty, Jerome K. Jerome, value on 2010-05-18 | 1 Comment »
Value and Dreams
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged horses, Overdose, value, Zoltán Mikóczy on 2009-04-22 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t buy the horse for business or to make a profit. You do not sell dreams. – Zoltán Mikóczy, owner of the horse Overdose, as quoted in the New York Times, 20 April 2009.
Boy value
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged agricultural labor, Peter Schnur, value on 2009-04-18 | Leave a Comment »
One boy is worth one boy. Two boys are worth half a boy. And three boys are worth no boy at all. – Peter Schnur, referring to the usefulness of boys working in his garden, as quoted (frequently) by his grandsons Julius, Eugene, Lewis, and Steven Helfer
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