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• Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
• Always borrow money from a pessimist; they don't expect to be paid back.
• If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?
• The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow from them.
• Never expect a quick answer from a pipe smoker. He will always fiddle with his pipe first.
  That's the real reason he smokes a pipe. -- Roger Simo...
• A ``decay in the social contract'' is detectable; there is a growing feeling
  particularly among middle-income taxpayers, that they are not getting back, from society and government, their money's worth for taxes paid....