Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
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- The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
- To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
- He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
- Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
- Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.