It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is...! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The crew was complete: it included a Boots-- A maker of Bonnets and Hoods--... A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes-- And a Broker, to value their goods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of charac...ter, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When your house is on fire, you can't be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your king is under attack you don...'t worry about losing a pawn on the queen's side.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance broker ...in America who owns a pair of white shoes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not a flock of wild geese cackles over our town, but it to some extent unsettles the value of real estate here, and, if I were a b...roker, I should probably take that disturbance into account.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »