For me, the pursuit of financial independence has never been about retirement. I like working and I’ve enjoyed my career. It’s been about having options. It’s been about being able to say “no.” It’s been about having F-You Money and the
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“An Englishman spoke to him from across the aisle but he found something antipathetic in the English lately. England was like a rich man after a disastrous orgy who makes up to the household by chatting with them individually, when it is obvious to them that he is only trying to get back his self-respect in order to usurp his former power.”
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“I was in a kind of agony. I was right on the point of coming out with the words, "Lloyd, I'm a pauper myself - absolutely penniless, and in debt!" But a white-hot idea came flaming through my head, and I gripped my jaws together, and calmed myself down till I was as cold as a capitalist”
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“In your experience, Baby," he demanded, "have you found that when a European wants to see an American very pressingly it is invariably something concerned with money?”
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“Pray for anything you like, if it is for the good of us all.
-I pray for beer, for meat and for a new wife with hard hands. You can share the wife.”
― True at First Light
-I pray for beer, for meat and for a new wife with hard hands. You can share the wife.”
― True at First Light
“I used to think until you're eighteen nothing matters," said Mary. "That's right," Abe agreed. "And afterward it's the same way.”
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