This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
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