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"Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance."
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"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
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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."
"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."
"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
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