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Years teach us more than books.

Berthold Auerbach

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
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Corruption Ends Men
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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Bird Nature Swamp
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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Men Selfish Vanity
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Years teach us more than books.
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Years teach us more than books.

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