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Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), Europe without Baedeker, rev. ed. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966), p. 254 (from Greek Diary: Notes on Liberated Athens):

He asked me, with Socratic irony, whether it were possible in the United States to make a lot of money and still be honest. "It's not possible over here," he said. "You can make a little money and be honest, but you can't make a lot of money without cheating or exploiting somebody."