"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

-- Confucius

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“Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt
“He gulped. "No, we aren't done chatting. Why aren't you afraid of dying?" "Everything and everyone has an end," she said. "I mean, you're going to be killed soon and though I loathe the thought, you don't see me crying about that, either. I know what will happen, and I accept what cannot be changed. I'm trying to live while I can. While WE can. Dwelling on the bad is what destroys all hints of joy.”
“No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality.”
“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
“It's very hard to be great at what you do if you aren't deeply passionate,”

Source : "Ivanka Trump Describes What It's Really Like To Be A Woman Who Works". Interview with Jenna Goudreau, www.businessinsider.com. January 26, 2015.
“Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.”
“I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.”
“When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.”

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