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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."
"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
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