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“Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.”
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But the Witch looked as if, in a way, she understood the music better than any of them. Her mouth was shut, her lips were pressed together, and her fists were clenched. Ever since the song began she had felt this whole world was filled with a Magic different from hers and stronger. She hated it. She would have smashed that whole world, or all worlds, to pieces, if it would only stop the singing.
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Shrewd money: it doesn’t go “poof!”
One of the perennial problems with saving up money (assuming one is in the blessed position to do so), is where to keep it so that its both “safe” and generates a good return. This is good stewardship, and not … Continue reading
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Tagged finances, friendship, giving, investments, money, receiving, shrewd, sowing
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Fast Money: it softens sufferings dread; it offers work and bread
A wonderfully inspiring story from a pre-WWII town in Austria called Worgl that was in the grip of the Depression, but was saved (temporarily) by a very insightful mayor, one Michael Unterguggenberger. He issued a local stamp script money… “On … Continue reading