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• Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote "The Golden Ass". -- Edward Abbey
• Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy. -- Edward Abbey
• The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners--and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.
  -- Edward Yourdon, 1975....
• The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are no
  An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot....
• If computers are so smart, why aren't they rich?
• Why wasn't I born rich instead of beautiful?
• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
  -- Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)...