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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel. Samuel Johnson		Thursday Mar 06, 2025
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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. Zimmermann

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Many have been ruined by their fortune, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall answer pride, or luxury, or ambition, or egotism? No; I shall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. Indeed all good principles must stagnate without mental activity.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single wantthe want of money.