"The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason."

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We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon