| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 9660 |
| AUTHOR: | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) |
| QUOTATION: | He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Maxims. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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