There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.
Tags: worry

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My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
Tags: life
The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.
Tags: ignorance
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well.
Tags: events
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
Tags: positive
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
Tags: capitalism
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