PROFIT

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1. Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.—HESIOD, Works and Days
   

2. What's none of my profit shall be none of my peril.—Proverb
   

3. Let him that receives the profit repair the inn.—Proverb
   

4. Every way makes my gain.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
   

5. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.—JOHN STEINBECK, The Grapes of Wrath