There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
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Moliere Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.James Russell Lowell
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
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