I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESHappy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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It is good to live and learn.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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