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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself

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