“Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.”
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.