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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little mi...more

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some v...more

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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by st...more