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- Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
- 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)
- Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
- Jewish Proverb
- 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
- We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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