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So Much The Worse For Those Who Fear Wine, For It Is Because They Have Some Bad Thoughts Which They Are Afraid The Liquor Will Extract From Their Hearts.

It Is Quite Rare For God To Provide A Great Man At The Necessary Moment To Carry Out Some Great Deep, Which Is Why When This Unusual Combination Of Circumstance Does Occur, History At Once Records The Name Of The Chosen One And Recommends Him To The Admiration Of Posterity.

It Is Almost As Difficult To Keep A First Class Person In A Fourth Class Job, As It Is To Keep A Fourth Class Person In A First Class Job.

Are There Not Some Places Where We Seem To Breathe Sadness? — Why, We Cannot Tell. It Is A Chain Of Recollections — An Idea Which Carries You Back To Other Times, To Other Places — Which, Very Likely, Have No Connection With The Present Time And Place.

Time, Dear Friend, Time Brings Round Opportunity; Opportunity Is The Martingale Of Man. The More We Have Ventured The More We Gain, When We Know How To Wait.