Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us.
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
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Love is a second life it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant accommodates itself to the meanest capacities silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens confounded their statesmen struck their orators dumb and at length argued them out of all their liberties.
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