Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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