“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
