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You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson

Sep 082015
 

Hallmark and Instagram are just two of the many fortunes to be made by permitting humans to communicate without the inconvenient obligation of articulate speech.

Jul 272015
 

Last to the meeting is most powerful, and apotheosis consists in not showing up at all.

Jul 202015
 

Having money is frequently confused with not having to think about it.

Jul 082015
 

Halving your actual possessions doubles your effective ones.

Jun 012015
 

Men sometimes stumble into vast fortunes, despite manifest incompetence, bad character, and borderline imbecility. Never give up.

May 112015
 

Robes always dignify begging — saffron for the Buddhist monk, black for the college president.

Mar 192015
 

A few bucks: In American parlance, a sum either a great deal more or a great deal less than you wish to represent.