Investment/history

Famous quotes containing the words investment and/or history:

    The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
    Henry James (1843–1916)