One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

Alexander Smith
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  1. A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

  2. If a man is worth knowing at all he is worth knowing well.

  3. The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

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  5. There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

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