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" Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. "

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" The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. "

" He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. "

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

" 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. "

" In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. "

" It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. "

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

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

" Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. "

" The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. "

" Exercise is labor without weariness. "

" You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. "

" I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. "

" Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. "

" It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. "

" Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. "

" Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. "

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

" We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. "

" So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. "

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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. "

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

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

" When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. "