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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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