"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it."

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us."

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"The worst old age is that of the mind."

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"Life is the art of being well deceived."

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"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others."

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"Reflection makes men cowards."

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"A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means."

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"It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter."

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"Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."

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"Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape."

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"He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever."

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"Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune."

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"One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect."

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"The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come."

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"General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it."

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"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."

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"There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!"

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"The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time."

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"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."

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"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."

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"It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world."

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"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor."

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"Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do."

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"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."

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"Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them."

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