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"But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect."
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"I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."
"Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity."
"The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California."
"So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive."
"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."
"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"
"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."
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"The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage."
"A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely."
"For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind."
"As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand."
"One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case."
"In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature."
"The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect."
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