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" There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. "

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" Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. "

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

" Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. "

" Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. "

" To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. "

" There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. "

" A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. "

" Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. "

" The true art of memory is the art of attention. "

" Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. "

" To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. "

" No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. "

" A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. "

" The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. "

" Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. "

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

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

" Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. "