"If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage."
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"Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father"
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"I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this."
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"In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities."
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"The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake."
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"It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others."
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"It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously."
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"For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . ."
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"I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied."
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"I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself."
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"Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you."
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"One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her."
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"I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something."
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"Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word."
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"I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving."
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"I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone."
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"That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind."
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"My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine."
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"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless."
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"Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them."
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