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- To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.
- W. J. Vogel
- Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
- Alexander Hodge
- If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
- Nicolas Boileau (1636 - 1711)
- Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
- Apuleius (124 AD - 170 AD)
- There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing.
- Aquaviva
- While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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