"Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street."

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Source : Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

Edwin Lefevre

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“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
“Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be”
“When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.”
“I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer.”
“I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.”

Source : John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.”

Source : John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.164, Macmillan
“Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.”
“There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.”

Source : Roy Jenkins “Essays Speeches”

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