Frank Algernon Cowperwood does not believe in the people; he does not trust them. To him they constitute no more than a field upon which corn is to be sown, and from which it is to be reaped. They present but a mass of bent backs, their knees and faces in the mire, over which as over a floor he strides to superiority. His private and inmost faith is in himself alone.
THEODORE DREISER, THE TITAN, 1914
That’s the way you do it—money for nothin’ and your chicks for free.
DIRE STRAITS