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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great…
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as…
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us…
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Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not…
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Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of…
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the…
— Charles Churchill
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These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with…
— Stephen Crane
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If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse
— Bob Arum
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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
— John Stuart Mill
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The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of…
— Franz Liszt
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When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
— Margaret Turnbull
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A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.
— George R. R. Martin
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
— Benjamin Franklin
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So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?" "Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
— Thomas More
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The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse.
— Irish Proverb
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