He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.Daniel Defoe
'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
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Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes Antiquity and birth are needless here 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
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