"That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along."

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Source : Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.130, John Wiley & Sons

Edwin Lefevre

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“The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.”
“The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed. In the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory. And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush.”
“I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh.”
“First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.”
“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”
“I had no sympathy for drama queens.”
“I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.”

Source : Vera Brittain (2008). “Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After”, Virago Press
“My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.”

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