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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

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
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Information Man Reminder
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Determination Diligence Greatness Impossible Performance Perservance Skills Strength Work
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Business Happiness Himself Man
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
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Change Effort Happiness Himself Human Knowledge Life Nature Seek Wasted Time
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
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Goodness Measurement Treat True
My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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Friendship Mindset Myself
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Animal Home Mathematics
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Death Himself Live Man
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Fools Himself Influence Power Worry
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Evil Man Misery Repeat
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Forgive Man Necessary Pain True Value Wisdom
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

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