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It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.

— Elbert Hubbard A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

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Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.

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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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