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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development

"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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Personal Development

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
Envy

"Patience is sorrow's salve."
Patience

"The best things carried to excess are wrong."
Moderation

"Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest."
Man

"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
Acting

"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."
Nation

"Genius is independent of situation."
Genius

"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense."
Beauty

"Genius is of no country."
Genius

"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."
Appearance
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