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In alt.obituaries I saw this quotation at the bottom of the obit of John Webster, an advertising guru of the 1970's and 1980's, whose most famous ad campaign was the Smash Martians (you have to be British of a certain age to remember this one). I thought that the quote was really good:

A couple of decades ago he bought a house in France which came with a tiny vineyard; he was proud of the wine he produced and sold - at ridiculously low prices - to his friends. He liked to point out that there were two ways you could go in life: you could go into advertising and work excessively long hours in a highly competitive environment, eventually having enough money to buy a small house in France. Or you could just be a French peasant and not bother with the other bit.