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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

there is grandeur in the inexorable rise in the S&P, documented by Dimson and Lorie.

i am forced to move and my paintings don't have much auction value so i would gladly reveal my methods for 50 million + and throw in a very valuable wife to the bargain.

English Men Once Sold Their Wives Instead of Getting Divorced

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, wife-selling was a weird custom with a practical purpose.

she's a very good one. Tom Wiswell said his one regret in life was that he didn't marry a girl like Susan and since then many visitors have said same. The problem is that she is necessary to take care of me so I believe she could sell me for more than I could get for her. I told her at dinner that I was looking at ways of making money by selling some of our trees. She looked at me and said immediately that she wasn't going to send me the picture of her I asked for.

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