Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Love truth, and pardon error.
No.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.