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Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

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.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags