With books and money plac'd for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay.
Samuel Butler
Art & Imagination
With books and money plac'd for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay.
Samuel Butler
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 624.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.