This sounds like a version of Whistler's statement when he was suing John Ruskin for libel: Holker: "The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundr

This sounds like a version of Whistler's statement when he was suing John Ruskin for libel: Holker: "The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?" Whistler: "No, I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler#Ruskin_trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler#...