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"Business is the Salt of Life."
Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, #1026, 1732, p. 38.

HYE SUNG feat. Shiloh — Bite Your Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2eYfhg8evY

"It was a law among the Persians that the musician should not judge of the painter, nor anyone meddle in that
handicraft wherein he was not expert...  But such is the vanity of youth that it thinketh nothing worthy either
of commendation or conference but only love ; whereof they sow much and reap little, wherein they spend all
and gain nothing, whereby they run into dangers before they wist, and repent their desires before they would.
I do not discommend honest affection which is grounded upon virtue as the mean, but disordinate fancy which
is builded upon lust as an extremity ; and lust I must term that which is begun in an hour and ended in a minute,
the common love in this our age, where ladies are courted for beauty not for virtue, men loved for proportion in
body not perfection in mind. It fareth with lovers as with those that drink of the river Gallus in Phrygia, whereof
sipping moderately is a medicine, but swilling with excess it breedeth madness."
John Lyly, Euphues: the anatomy of wit; Euphues & his England, 1578, p. 405.

BLACKPINK — Playing with Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1-EWPjmyxU

"On finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it."
Matthew 13:46, New Revised Standard Version (NRSV).

"Whether the firste of all to Pallas, and to live at the University, there to attaine the profound and sound knowledge
of the liberall artes. Or honour sacred Juno with solemnizing her mariage…. Or if none of these will fit thy fancie,
wilt thou vow thy self to Venus, and court it awhile?"
Brian Melbancke, Philotimus: The warre betwixt nature and fortune, 1583 [Three alternatives to dedicate a full life.]

Isabela protects her ship investment. Varric convinced exiled Anders of a bomb fireworks to prepare his big finish.

"I'm sure there are reader who will be grateful for that criminal's nonsense. It'll sell."
Osamu Tezuka, Barbara, Chapter 15 Ever After, Big Comic, 1973.