Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

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  It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

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  Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

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  Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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  As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

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  The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

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  To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

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  Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

• William Hazlitt:

  One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.