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Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slopkettles. - [Coffee : Tea] It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. - [Ambition] It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. - [Independence] Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. - [Failure] Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. - referring to a bank as an elderly lady in the city [Proverbial Phrases] Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves. - [Poverty] The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth. - [Riches]
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