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"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."

"The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve."

"If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins."

"But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect."

"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."

"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."
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"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."

"As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless."

"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."

"Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you."

"Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts."
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