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“He has fought a good fight and has had to face every difficulty except popularity.”
Men and Memories • Oscar Wilde“Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.”
Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens“Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle“You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves. (Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you0 do?) ”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius“No profit whatever can possibly be made but at the expense of another. . . . The Merchant only thrives, and grows rich, by the pride, wantonness and debauchery of youth; the husbandman by the price and scarcity of grain; the architect by the ruin of buildings; lawyers, and officers of Justice, by the suits and contentions of men; nay even the honor and office of Divines are derived from our death and vices. A physician takes no pleasure in the health even of his friends . . . nor a soldier in the peace of his country and so of the rest.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne