Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
PLINY THE ELDERIn the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Chance is a second master.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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No one is wise at all times.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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