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Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.

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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

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Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

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Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

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You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir.

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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.

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The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.

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If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

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