Quote #13658
To know when to be generous and when to be firm — this is...
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To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave...
Quote #16879
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Quote #19953
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is...
Quote #18539
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability...
Quote #5483
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of...
Quote #14128
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not...
Quote #595
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
Quote #18217
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.