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he was one of those people who mistook sarcasm for wit.
“Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.”
― The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
― The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
“Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone who asks me where I think it lies. If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!”
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“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
― Fer-de-Lance
― Fer-de-Lance
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