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"There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it."
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"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
"Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
"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."
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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."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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