It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility
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Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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