Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.
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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.Samuel Butler
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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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While the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.
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