A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker the philosopher a cynic the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
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