"[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed."

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What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.

— William Batchelder Greene