POINTS TO PONDER CXXXV 

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour. 

Willa Cather

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The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Bertrand Russell

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Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith