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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.
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Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
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Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
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Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
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