“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
“"There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else -- but persistent.”
“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”
“...the English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else ( with few, or no exceptions ) was either an enemy or a bore.”
“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”