"Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them."
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"Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling."
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"Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees."
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"Innovations, which are the births of time."
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"I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck."
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"There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious."
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"Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit."
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"There is no such flatterer as is a man's self."
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"The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull."
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"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
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"That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain."
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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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"Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go."
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"Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge."
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"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other."
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"A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce."
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"It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about."
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"If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides."
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"Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life."
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"The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought."
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