Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

With DRM technology's expanding role in the market, levies have become a superfluous double tax on consumers,

My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.