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anything is all gone. I feel I was as much a nuisance to myself as to others - am in a dangerous mood and unsuited to my responsibilities. Feel like giving up everything [[red underline]] Will this get worse the older I get or is it the realization how foolish it is to be tied up to so many matters which [[/red underline]] are not worth while particularly a business enterprise for which I have small enthusiasm and [[red underline]] merely brings me in money [[/red underline]] which I have to pay for by worries and [[strikethrough]] fill [[/strikethrough]] bother and which prevents me of disposing [[strikethrough]] freley [[/strikethrough]] freely of my time [[red underline]] Feel like a caged-in animal. - What's the use of money anyhow, beyond what is needed to get [[/red underline]] along simply. The more
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money I get [[red underline]] the more wasteful everybody around here becomes in the use of it. [[red underline]] It [[strikethrough]] Feb 28 [[/strikethrough]] all seems absurd to me. I can not even plan a vacation without living under the constant worry of these ever postponed [[red underline]] patent suits and sundry petty [[/red underline]] matters who rob me of my freedom
Feb 28. Went to New York. lunch at Chemists Club then went to James Colgate office for meeting of [[red underline]] nominating Committee of University Club. [[/red underline]] Gave him a list with some names. He objects to [[red underline]] Pupin because he never [[strikethrough]] comes around when he has [[/strikethrough]] keeps an engagement. [[/red underline]] Thinks [[red underline]] McGuire [[/red underline]] is good but wants to do everything his own way and does not work well with others. He suggests [[red underline]] Charles Hughes [[/red underline]] as a desirable member because he makes a