On the subject of getting rich, I always wanted to become so rich that I’d be able to buy any book that struck my fancy, even a hardcover. Now I can do that but the problem is that I don’t have the time to read all the books I can afford to buy.
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I can’t find time to read all the books I have and I am totally impoverished. So things could be worse.
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And then you get older and your eyesight starts to go . . . .”
Actually, your statement sounds very similar to what I heard decades ago working in Manhattan. “The young have the stamina to party all not but can’t afford it. The old have the money but not the stamina.”
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And it’s the same with food. Just as you arrive at a point where you can afford to buy any treat you want, you no longer have the health to eat it. 🙂
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Speak for yourself, I converted roughly one and a half stone of accumulated fat into muscle by switching to a diet that consists mostly of delicious grilled steak and vegetables, with an occasional down-market slide over to the local kebab shop. 🙂
One unwelcome side effect: I now have to buy new shirts because my neck size is around 50 centimetres, so I am now hoping that some of the shirts I have with me will last until I can get back to Jermyn Street.
One welcome side effect: 50 kg boxes full of books no longer faze me in the slightest. 🙂
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That is a very good definition of rich!
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🙂
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“I always wanted to become so rich that I’d be able to buy any book that struck my fancy …”
I don’t worry about how many books I have, or how I have “too many books” …
Now I worry about how I’m going to transport the next library I’m going to purchase, and how yet again I’m going to manage to slip beneath the threshold of attention that the inevitable rounds of donations often tend to cause.
Still, I should probably cut down on my personal purchases because other people tend to remember them — it’s always about how I’m buying “too many books” for one person to read.
I’m certain there are tax advantages I’m missing by doing all of my purchases in person, rather than through foundations …
[an added note for the Secret Squirrels: flying your miniature drone “fly” around me when I’m shopping at the Waterstone’s in Cheltenham is rude, please stop this nonsense at once …]
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