It is far more easy to acquire fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman.
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.Charles Caleb Colton
That is indeed twofold knowledge, which profits alike By the folly of the foolish, and the wisdom of the wise. It is both a shield and a sword it borrows its security from the darkness, and its confidence from the light.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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Genius, in one respect, is like gold numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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