Famous quotes containing the words opium and/or trade:
“What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”
—W.R. (William Ralph)