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    Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

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    And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.

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    For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

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    Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.

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    If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

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    Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

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    Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

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    No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

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    Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

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    The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

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    Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

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    To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

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    To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

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    When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.