"There is much money given to be..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.
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“How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.”
“When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.”
“Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.”
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