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"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."
"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
"I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research."
"We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain."
"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."
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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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