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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.