"Unjust rule does not last forever."
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"Money has yet to make anyone rich."
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"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."
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"The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing."
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"Resistance to oppression is second nature."
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"It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have."
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"Fear drives the wretched to prayer"
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"You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation."
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"It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together."
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"Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself."
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"There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it."
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"The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received."
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"We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine."
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"It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how."
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"It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight."
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"If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared."
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"Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few."
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"Consider an enemy may become a friend."
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"He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former."
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"We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it."
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