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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need read more
Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need substance as well as frosting.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my read more
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common read more
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.