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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.[][]
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.[][]
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.[][]
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.[][]
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.[][]
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. [][]
Fidelity is the sister of justice.[][]
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.[][]
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.[][]
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.[][]
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.[][]
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.[][]
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.[][]
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.[][]
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.[][]
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