"I also heard from the same source that the reason he can't get on with English people is that he can't get over an aversion to anyone who works for money. He doesn't separate it into another art, like Plato. I wish he did. The man who told me this said at the end, "He is without the three strongest passions which make men good or bad—the love of money, the love of fame and the love of women.""
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Cecil Spring Rice, letter (1884), quoted in The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: A Record, Volume I, ed. Stephen Gwynn (1929), p. 34
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