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" Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. "
William Hazlitt
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" There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. "
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" People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. "
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