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I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.

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"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

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Luck whines; labor whistles.

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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

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The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

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