Often the goal is to create a nest egg to cover college or postgraduation expenses, like the down payment on a house, seed money for a start-up company or a subsidy for a low-paying first job.

The word imposter was floated at me a few times. I can still feel the sting of those words sometimes when I hit an emotional low point.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

In Montreal, George Stephen was also thinking about money while he walked in sober mood from the Bank to the Canadian Pacific offices; one of the best-known figures in the city […] his passage along St. James Street was noted by many, and he nodded abstractedly to innumerable acquaintances.