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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

Samuel Johnson

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Desire Enjoyment Himself Man Philosophy Poor Rich Wisdom
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Fools Love Wisdom
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Advice Need Welcome
Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Make Up Tears Weapon Woman
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Dangerous Integrity Knowledge Weakness
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Knowledge Wisdom
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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Friendship Mindset Myself
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Better Company Enough Food Man Prison Room
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Retirement Sorry Talent Thinking World Yourself
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Evidence One Liner Power Truth
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Law Nature Power Wisdom Woman
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Afford Difficult Life Pleasure
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Diligence Hope Learning
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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Equality Monument Past Pride Wisdom

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