Bad workmanship never recoils on us; and we cut the material we have to work with pretty much as we like. A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are never put down to us, and it is always the fault of the fellow who dies.
 Molière, The Physician in Spite of Himself (1666). copy citation

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Author Molière
Source The Physician in Spite of Himself
Topic loss cost
Date 1666
Language English
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Note Translated by Henri van Laun
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