The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from castle walls, but from countinghouses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the broadsword but by the scrape of the pen.
没有天赋的艺术家什么都不是,但没有工作的天赋也什么都不是。
The poor are not irrational; they are just as rational as anyone else, but they operate under very different constraints.