“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
