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Luc de Clapiers

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

Enemy, Prosperity, Friends, Enemies

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The lazy are always wanting to do something.

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Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.

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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

Act, Liable, Mistake, Mistakes, Second Thoughts

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Brian Binnie

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I wake up every morning and thank God I live in a country where all of this is possible. Where you have the Yankee ingenuity to roll up your sleeves, get a band of people who believe in something and go for it and make it happen. It doesn't happen anywhere else.

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