Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
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