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"The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate."
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"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
Wisdom
"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
Job
"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little."
Man
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
Adversity
"Science is but an image of the truth."
Science
"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
Friendship
"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
Truth
"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."
Opportunity
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."
Man
"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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