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“It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.”

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James Grant, born in 1946, is an accomplished writer whose works span various literary genres, known for his profound insights and rich imagination. more

“The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the equation is that riskier borrowers pay higher interest rates. Ultimate safety - a strongbox full of currency - would avail the banker nothing. Maximum risk - a portfolio of loans to prospective bankrupts at usurious interest rates - would invite disaster. A good banker safely and profitably treads the middle ground.”

“It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.”

Mind Wonderful Exercise Activity

Book:Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: with his treatises on friendship and old age

Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: with his treatises on friendship and old age

“When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.”

Long Stills Night Literature Stars Dark Century Cold Dust Noses Stillness Ancestor Woe Pointing Cadence Cold Night

Book:The Call of the Wild and White Fang

Source: The Call of the Wild and White Fang

“In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.”

Heart Literature Sorrow And Love Madness Shame Frenzy

Author:Virgil

“And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters.”

Literature Water Land Summer Carrie Runners Handful Wanderers Land And Water Runner Up

Author:Virgil

“Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.”

Fit Exercise Dieting Physical Fitness

Author:Steve Allen

“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”

Men Reality Funny Literature Neighbor Every Man Neighborhood Spy Jane

Author:Jane Austen

“For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.”

Mind Heart Mother Family Wife Son Sake Heart And Mind Better Off Wives And Mothers Future Wife

Author:Pam Brown

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