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" Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. "

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" Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. "

" All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. "

" Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. "

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" By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. "

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