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    Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

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    Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

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    Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

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    To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

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