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• True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
• Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
• An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
• Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.
• Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
• The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
• We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their…
• Our costliest expenditure is time.
• Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for…
• Beauty is a mute deception.
• One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
• Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

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