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Modesty is the only bait when you angle for praise.

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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

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A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.

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Style is the dress of thoughts.

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

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Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.

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Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

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Wisdom Quote

Before God we are all equally wise-equally foolish.

- Albert Einstein

Motivational Quote

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

- Lou Holtz

Happiness Quote

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.

- Oscar Wilde

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides

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