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» The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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» Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

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» He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

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» To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

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» If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

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» Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

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» Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

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» We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

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» Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

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» Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

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