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If there were no bad speculations there could be no good investments; if there were no wild ventures there would be no brilliantly successful enterprises. – F. W. Hirst

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Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. – Marcus Aurelius

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