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Nothing can be a need unless you think of it by yourself, without the aid of advertisements.
Since, in exchanging presents, everyone's net gain is null, I prefer the more efficient gift of not giving.
At holidays we make donations to the economy in each other's honor.

open quote Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism... inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own. close quote

-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism