"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him."
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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion."
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"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties."
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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
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"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
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"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
