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- Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
- The Talmud
- Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
- Jewish Proverb
- If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.
- Edward Clarke
- When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
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