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“Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.”

Humans Littles Doe Today Games One Thing Streets Human Nature Wall Accounts Strikes Yesterday Contemporary Panic Repetition Speculation Indulge Indulge In Speculators

Book:Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

“Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.”

Men Individual Poor Money Risk Streets Accounts Charity Credit Invited Prosperous Poor Man Bank Accounts Bazaars

Book:The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

“Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Stories Fiction Streets Battle Equal Accounts Rate Demonstration Factual

Author:John Cheever

“Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day.”

Happens House Walks Streets Accounts Settling Caution

Author:Bill Murray

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”

Source: Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic

“My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street.”

Young Science Wish Seeing Streets Students Accounts Beer Staggering Young Friends

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss