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" Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. "

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" The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. "

" The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. "

" Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. "

" A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. "

" To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. "

" There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. "

" Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. "

" Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. "

" So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. "

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" That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. "

" Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. "

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" Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. "

" Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? "

" It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. "

" I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. "

" To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. "

" A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. "

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" Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. "

" The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. "

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" Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. "

" When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. "

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" Words are but the signs of ideas. "

" The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. "