“Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
