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• Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or…
• Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go…
• Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
• Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been,…
• How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
• Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten,…
• Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of…
• Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.
• Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.
• The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that…
• The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on…
• There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like…

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