To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Dead men don't bite

"The man's tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another fever."
Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles."
That comed — as you call it — of being arrant asses."

Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.