Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.
Lord Melbourne
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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
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