No, what was sad in his case was that he, who didn’t care for carved oak, should have his drawing-room paneled with it, while people who do care for it have to pay enormous prices to get it. It seems to be the rule of this world. Each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want.

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) English writer, humorist [Jerome Klapka Jerome]

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), ch. 6 (1889)
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