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I Can Write Advice, Too. Won't Auction For $1.8 Million, Tho
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In 1922, Albert Einstein didn't have any tip money for a messenger, so instead he scribbled a couple of life-lesson aphorisms and gave them to the messenger, saying that maybe if the messenger was lucky they'd someday be worth something. And he was prescient: The scribbles just auctioned for $1.8 million. The messenger didn't live to get the money, but his relatives did. Couple of thoughts: Why didn't the messenger sell 'em when he was still alive? And what must it have been like for Einstein, who was 43 years old at the time and had just learned he'd won the Nobel Prize, to know that everything he did might be remembered and valuable forever? (Washington Post)
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