“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
