Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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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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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.
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In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
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