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Getting

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

Jul 152021
 

One pays moderately for the item and immoderately to keep others from having it.

Jun 222021
 

Having It All — in which the first word represents desultory acquisition, the second conformity, and the third inability to choose.

Apr 302021
 

Whatever the corrupt practice, everyone does not do it, and to say everyone does is a vicious attempt to wipe from existence those who do not.

Mar 252021
 

Capitalism has been the only loyal friend of the unfit; no wonder they hate it so.

Mar 222021
 

To destroy a man’s property is to nullify that part of his life devoted to its creation or acquisition. It is to kill him, insensibly and by degrees.