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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

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Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes.

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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

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It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to kn...more

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My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in thi...more