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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
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Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
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Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
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To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
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To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
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To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
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