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In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely constitutions who offered to compensate owners if their boats were lost at sea.


Charles Duhigg

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CHARLES KENNEDY I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me fee...
CHARLES PLATT You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van...
CHARLES LINDBERGH I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a...
CHARLES COMISKEY Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust...
CHARLES BUXTON The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY I could never hate anyone I knew.
CHARLES LAMB Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many oth...
CHARLES DANCE By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more...
CHARLES SAATCHI Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, ...
CHARLES WOLFE I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pompos...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any...
CHARLES TUPPER My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that mom...
CHARLES KELLEY I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see w...
CHARLES DICKENS We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official...
CHARLES PEGUY We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ...
CHARLES MACKAY Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously ...
CHARLES MICHEL In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences - economic, commercial, ...
CHARLES MICHEL God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
CHARLES WESLEY Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.
CHARLES READE The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th...
CHARLES HUGHES We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES HUGHES Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w...
CHARLES DICKENS