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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…
• Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
• To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
• Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as…
• No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
• A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
• No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

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