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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. - [Opposition] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow. - [Temperance - Prohibition] Opposition is what we want and must have to be good for anything. Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. - [Self-reliance] Talk to the point, and stop when you have reached it. The faculty some possess of making one idea cover a quire of paper is not good for much. Be comprehensive in all you say or write. To fill a volume upon nothing is a credit to nobody; though Lord Chesterfield wrote a very clever poem upon nothing. - [Brevity] The million covet wealth, but how few dream of its perils? - [Wealth]
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