Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

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Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.