Quote#Money & Wealth
Poor playthings of the man that's gone
Quote byFrederick York Powell · 1850–1904
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "At a Certain Auction in 1897" (of the personal effects of Lewis Carroll), in Frederick York Powell, a Life, and a Selection from his Letters and Occasional Writings by Oliver Elton (1906), p. 393.
English (original)
Poor playthings of the man that's gone, Surely we would not have them thrown, Like wreckage on a barren strand, The prey of every greedy hand.
— Frederick York Powell
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