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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Goodness Measurement Treat True
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Attempt Himself Life Man Possession Waste
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Advantage Better Country Enjoyment Himself Improvement Learning Travel Visit Worst
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Goodness Greatness Himself Wait
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Health Moral Preserve Religious Social Virtue
The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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Enjoyment Happiness Travel Woman
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Man Praise Rich Virtue Wealth Wisdom World
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Courage Greatness Opportunity Virtue
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Civilization Poor Test True
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Enjoyment Happiness Man Money Save
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Afford Difficult Life Pleasure
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Happiness heavy Life Money Mortal Time
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Coward Defense Revenge
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Better Goodness Man Talk Wife
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Concentration Death Focus Man Mindset Wonderful

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