Valuing people for their efforts and achievements, and thus expecting everyone to lead a useful life, even those who can well afford to be
Judith Martin
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Yesterday is history, Tomorrow’s a mystery. Today is a gift; that’s why they call it “the present”.
Alain De Botton
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range
James Tobin
Their temperaments and longings had pushed them on a path towards the unknown – never the path of people who wish to pile up
Orville Wright
Will and I could hardly wait for the morning to come to get at something that interested us. That’s happiness.
Thomas Cooper
The commercial speculator often gets rich by accident, by unfair venturing, by sudden exertions. Wealth thus suddenly obtained is in many respects detrimental to
Betty Smith (1897-1972) German/American Author and Writer
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
Toqueville
individuals undertook business “not only for the sake of the profit it holds out to them, but for the love of the constant excitement
Jackson Lear
To critics of gambling, the sine qua non of manly success was not sudden wealth, but steady movement towards prosperity.
Unitarian Minister O.B. Frothingham, 1883
The frenzy of high stakes betting was ‘one of those perilous devices by which men try to infuse romance into their otherwise dull existence,