Quote#Money & Wealth
Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack
Quote byLewis Carroll · 1832–1898
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Rhyme? and Reason? (1883), Fame's Penny-Trumpet st. 1 & 2.
English (original)
Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back - Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!Fill all the air with hungry wails - "Reward us, ere we think or write! Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails To sate the swinish appetite!"
— Lewis Carroll
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