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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."

"You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself."

"Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron."

"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."

"Writing a sincere narrative account of personal adversities and misfortunes is one way to become acquainted with the rifts of a person's inmost self, the smothered pieces of want that lie separate and undetected amid the customs, habits, vices, and tedium that encases us in the hubbub of daily living."
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"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
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