Robert Byron Quote

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.

The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded (ed. MarcoPolo, 2016) - ISBN: 9789898575685

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be...

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be...

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be...

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be...