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The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.
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Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.
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In life it is training rather than birth which counts.
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Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.
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Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.
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There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.
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To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.
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To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
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If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.
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Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.
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If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.
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Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.
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