He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. - Charles Caleb Colton

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Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. . . 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket. '

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

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