Famous quotes containing the words advantages and/or cost:
“No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the the movements of the world gave a chance for it.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)