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- Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
- Francis Hutcheson
- Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
- Antiphanes
- Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences.
- Anonymous
- Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- Lighter is the wound foreseen.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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