What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
Source: The Cloister, vol. 3 (tr. by Claud Field, 1898; repr. 1969, p. 118).
-- J August Strindberg, (Jan 22 1849-1912), Swedish playwright, novelist, short-story writer; He combined psychology and Naturalism in a new kind of European drama that evolved into Expressionist drama, e.g. The Father, 1887.