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The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich Ponkapog Papers (1903)

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age.

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What is lovely never dies,
But passes into other loveliness,
Star-dust, or sea-foam, or wingëd air.

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A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

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There's a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

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The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

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