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" A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. "
Jonathan Swift
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" Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. "
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" Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. "
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" It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. "
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" If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. "
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" Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. "
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" Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. "
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" As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. "
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" Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. "
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" Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. "
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" No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. "
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" Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. "
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You
Bad
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" The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. "
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