The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency, the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity, both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear, or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life, and one is as good as the other.
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