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every run of luck must end sooner or later.
Max Gunther • How to Get Lucky: 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks
a robust association of adventurers engaged in hazarding all in a series of preposterous gambles.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
for gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
As Isaac Newton put it, after losing a fortune in the South Seas stock bubble: “I can calculate the movement of stars, but not the madness of men.”
Richard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Man is many things, but he is not rational.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
He made no scruple to charge me with being in love;
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
wealthy individuals are unaware that the habits