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«Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.»
«The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.»
«Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.»
«Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.»
«Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.»
«Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.»
«Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.»
«Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.»
«Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.»
«There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.»
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