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• Your aspirations are your possibilities.
• It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his…
• The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and…
• Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
• To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
• The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
• Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
• The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken…
• Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
• Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
• The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
• He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that…

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