The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Ah Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.Samuel Johnson
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Suspicion is most often useless pain.
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility
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