"A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."

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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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"The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions."

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"Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement."

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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."

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"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am."

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"At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest."

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"Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger."

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"I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him."

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"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."

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