That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.Charles Caleb Colton
It is far more easy to acquire fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
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