Money, n. Crystallized desire.
Apr 102020
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You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
Jan 152020
Only moderns, criminals, and small children regard a desire for something as a sign that they ought to have it.
Dec 182019
Reasoning to broad, correct conclusions is like beating the market: it happens, but not to you.
Nov 192019
The nostalgia is not for poverty but for the social bonds that poverty demands and cements.
Nov 152019
The capitalists will sell the communists the rope with which they will jointly hang the remaining holdouts against our glorious corpo-progressive future.
Nov 082019
All motives are base; some actions are noble.
Oct 072019
What you get is, to a first approximation, what you want.
Sep 182019
If no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money, then world literature is almost entirely the province of blockheads.
Aug 132019
It is crime, of all fields, that most attracts the woefully underqualified.
Jul 292019
Dressing for success is a cargo cult.