It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
From Washington Irving
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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