Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

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