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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.