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"If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win."

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"Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right"

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"The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame"

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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity"

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"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."

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"Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live"

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"Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive."

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"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

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"When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us."

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"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."

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"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route."

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"It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them"

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"Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them"

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"Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can."

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"The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm"

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"Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual."

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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence"

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"Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."

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"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us"

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"Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man"

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