One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.
Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.
It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
I really don't want the best people at the highest cost.