"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."

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"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."

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"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."

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"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."

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