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Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

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Henry Taylor

Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.

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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

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He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

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No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

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Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

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Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

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