Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or basis:
“To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatistthe problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with ones vinegar.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
—Thorstein Veblen (18571929)
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