"There was only one earth, and the quantity of material things was limited. Of intellectual and moral things, on the other hand, there was no limit, … - Upton Sinclair

Worst of any, however, were the fertilizer men, and those who served in the cooking rooms. These people could not be shown to the visitor, — for the odor of a fertilizer man would scare any ordinary visitor at a hundred yards, and as for the other men, who worked in tank rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting, — sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard!

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Everybody agreed that the styles for that summer of 1914 were the most extreme since the Restoration,