The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty inSamuel Butler
But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure tangible material prosperity in this world is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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