Chemists Live More Sweetly Than Persian Kings
The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.
Notes:
Knowledge for its own sake is more satisfying than immense wealth.
Folksonomies: knowledge wealth
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Concepts:
The Persian (0.911360): dbpedia | freebase | yago
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