“History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVIII, p. 217
“Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XIV, p. 172
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