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101 " Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely. "
― Carew Papritz , The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
102 " Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized . . . "
103 " Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots. "
104 " And Sometimes I Feel as if I'm Only a Doorman Awaiting the Arrival of her Royal Majesty. "
105 " Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime. "
106 " Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living. "
107 " Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance. "
108 " Rain with an umbrella while holding hands with your lover is damned sure nice. "
109 " And I don't care what age you are, kissing in the rain is the best. "
110 " How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning. "
111 " Rain with no shoes is just as much fun as rain with big rubber galoshes. "
112 " Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss—taunting, deep, and luscious. The sun. The heat. The thousand echoes of a timelessness before time, when every day seems longer than the next and no day seems likely to ever truly end. Summer. "
113 " Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep. "
114 " Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious. "
115 " The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point? "
116 " As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage. "
117 " Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . . "
118 " So, if the truest currency of life is time, then how do you get more time? Because if more is merrier, than having more time should make us more happier. Right? Therefore, all we have to ask ourselves is can we buy more time? . . . "
119 " So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS? "
120 " Be the same person- with or without money. "