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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
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Good and bad men are less than they seem.
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