"money takes flight when might conquers right"

[Jonathan Lighter]

To clarify: "ridiculous" as a proverbial pronouncement.  If Isaac is only
justifying his own actions, that's different.

Either way, though, it sounds too ad hoc to be a traditional saying.

JL

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I can think of no context in which "artificial" makes sense.
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> I mean "fabricated" in the sense of "constructed". Both phrases,
> "might makes right" and "money takes flight" were, and still are,
> familiar in English. Stitching them together (as opposed to making
> them up) is all the screenwriters had to do.
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> >> fabricated
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> > In the sense of "artificial, made-up"?
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