If you're so concerned about losing money, why don't you just give it up?
C. Schlosser to give it up for history, and after continuing his historical work at Jena and teaching in the gymnasium at Wertheim he made his mark by his Die teutschen Geschichtsschreiber vom Anfang des Frankenreichs bis auf die Hohenstaufen (1839).
I wouldn't give it up for a million dollars, just like I wouldn't sell my left arm for a million dollars.
Of course we must not give it up.
