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“One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.
— Edwin Lefèvre
Author of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923)
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter V, p. 61
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