My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
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Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs too much.
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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
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Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
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The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
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Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.
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