“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
