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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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"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
Man
"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
Marriage
"Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
Man
"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
Happiness
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
Friendship
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
Friendship
"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."
Love
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
Wisdom
"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."
Fame
"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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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
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"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
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"I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances."
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"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."
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"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
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Personal Development
"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."
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Personal Development
"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."
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Personal Development
"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
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"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."
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"I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make."
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