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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
A witty saying proves nothing.Voltaire
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1711
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605