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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Associate Greatness Local Man Position
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Courage Greatness Opportunity Virtue
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Animal Home Mathematics
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Man Praise Rich Virtue Wealth Wisdom World
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
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Father Freedom Independent Power Son Struggle
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Expression Greatness Himself Hope Man Meaning World
Grief is a species of idleness.
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Born Children Grief One Liner Wasted Time
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Knowledge Wisdom
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Goodness Greatness Himself Wait
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Happiness heavy Life Money Mortal Time
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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Best Deserve Ignorance Insult Motivational Punishment
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need People
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Concentration Death Focus Man Mindset Wonderful
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Desire Man Myself Reading Writing

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