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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
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He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
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Labour is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other.
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Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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Nothing preaches better than the act.
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
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Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at TV. They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
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Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
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