Money is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the good life, for happiness and wisdom.

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This means more life for these women, and more wisdom from them about how to survive a cancer diagnosis. (Smith, for example, travels the country talking to women about breast cancer as a paid spokeswoman for drug company Eli Lilly).

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Yet for all the wisdom of his criticism, Hazlitt was not in control of his own emotional life.

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The best of the best of women who are willing to leave their own pain, struggles and challenges at home and bring their love, life lessons, compassion, time, strength, courage and spiritual wisdom -- for girls they have never met.

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