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Riches are for spending.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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