A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.
After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.
The last thing you do the best is what you have the most joy doing.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.