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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. Edmund Spenser

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. Phineas Taylor Barnum

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up” (1936)

We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our...

Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic! Jean Sibelius, quoted in Bengt de Torne “Sibelius: A Close-Up” 1937

The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket. Kin [F. McKinney] Hubbard

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites. Quintilian

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. Pearl S. Buck