• Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

    William Wordsworth: Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
    William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.211