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- Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade:
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
but a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed can never be supplied. - Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
- We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little and who talk too much. - John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- Property has its duties as well as its rights.
- Thomas Brummond
- With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- No man is demolished but by himself.
- Richard Bently
- In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
- Richard Baxter (1615 - 1691)
- Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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