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A creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity, and can belabour that.
~ Victor Hugo 1802 - 1885
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All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work alone is noble.
~ Thomas Carlyle 1795 - 1881
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The first and wisest of them all professed, To know this only, that he nothing knew.
~ John Milton 1608 - 1674
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Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, is so far magnificent that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.
~ Victor Hugo 1802 - 1885
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No man is happy unless he believes he is.
~ Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC -
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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
~ Edward Gibbon 1737 - 1794
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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
~ Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC
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Every uneasiness at our own state is founded upon comparing it with that of other people.
~ William Law 1686 - 1761
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