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Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious...more

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply w...more

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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written...more