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

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Truth allows no choice.
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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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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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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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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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Care Hands Mad Man Ourselves Pity Room
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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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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No man was ever great by imitation.
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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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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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