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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.
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A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
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We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
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