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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

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I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

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The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

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