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"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."
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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
Money
"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
Education
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
Knowledge
"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."
Life
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Man
"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
Change
"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."
Perseverance
"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him."
Ambition
"Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied."
Relationship
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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