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posted by martyb on Friday October 27 2017, @08:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the money-buys-happiness dept.

'More valuable than a regular tip': Einstein's handwritten note to courier sells for $1.5m

A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo briefly describing his theory on happy living has sold at auction in Jerusalem for $1.56m (€1.33m), according to auctioneers.

The winning bid for the note far exceeded the pre-auction estimate of between $5,000 and $8,000, according to Winner's auctions.

"It was an all-time record for an auction of a document in Israel," said Winner's spokesman Meni Chadad, adding that the buyer was a European who wished to remain anonymous.

The note, on Imperial Hotel Tokyo stationery, says in German[1] that "a quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest".

[1] The original German text was: "Stilles bescheidenes Leben gibt mehr Glück als erfolgreiches Streben, verbunden mit beständiger Unruhe."

I hope you're happy with your purchase.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Friday October 27 2017, @12:31PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 27 2017, @12:31PM (#588189) Journal

    or just English done badly

    Not Americans' fault though.
    You see, "Bad English" is pleonastically redundundundant. There's only one direction English can be done, and this is the "bad" direction; of course, one can do it at different levels (bad, worse, worser, the worst, worster than the worst, even beyond the worsterest, etc).

    (grin)

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