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AN OVERLY OPTIMISTIC BUSINESS PLAN.

February 9, 2007 at 10:15 PM · Economics

AN OVERLY OPTIMISTIC BUSINESS PLAN. Jackie Wullschlager, the writer on art who may be the best thing about the Financial Times, points out today that the father of the eighteenth century artist William Hogarth ended in a debtor’s prison when his venture to establish a Latin-speaking coffee house failed.

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Mary Jane February 10, 2007 at 11:24 AM

Sed, quod pensiat? Cui venirient?

I haven’t studied Latin in over forty years. So, lay off!