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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.