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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. - [Mothers] An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. - [Quiet] Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings. - [Life] Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. - [Love] Money is economic power. - [Money] No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. - [Meditation] Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. - [Poverty] Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. - [Belief] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - [Pleasure] The real essence of work is concentrated energy. - [Work] The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. - [Writers] Life is a school of probability. - quoting, "The World of Mathematics" by J.R. Newman (ed.) (p. 1360) [Probability] The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair. - Literary Studies (II, 410, Ignorance of Man) [Gods]
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