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Children are a poor man’s wealth.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the...
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in...
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A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we...
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Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred...
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The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but...
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is...
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man...
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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from...