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Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for.
Henry Hazlitt • Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Tout repose sur des bases financières si nettes en France. Il n'y a pas de pays où il soit plus facile de vivre. Personne ne complique les choses en devenant votre ami pour d'obscures raisons. Je dépensai un peu d'argent et le garçon m'aima. Il apprécia ma valeur marchande. Il serait heureux de me revoir, et il me ferait asseoir à une de ses tables
... See moreErnest Hemingway, Jean Prévost, • Le soleil se lève aussi (French Edition)
Suppose you should be walking down Broadway after dinner, with ten minutes allotted to the consummation of your cigar while you are choosing between a diverting tragedy and something serious in the way of vaudeville. Suddenly a hand is laid upon your arm. You turn to look into the thrilling eyes of a beautiful woman, wonderful in diamonds and Russi
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John Bogle • "Enough"
Society recovers only a tenth part of the property then. Is this owing to the generosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice?
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Among the young men their friends and neighbours, the belle jeunesse of the Colony, there were many excellent fellows, several devoted swains, and some two or three who enjoyed the reputation of universal charmers and conquerors. But the home-bred arts and the somewhat boisterous gallantry of those honest young colonists were completely eclipsed by
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