Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

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The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

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The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produces amendment, and the greatest, insufficient if it does not.

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