Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith
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Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble
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It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of all false philosophy, is sweet to every human heart; but as eminence can be but the lot of a few, patience of obscurity is a
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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient
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I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
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I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.
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When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.
He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.
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