"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."
-Laurence J. Peter
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"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.“
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"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise."
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