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Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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After victory, you have more enemies.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

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