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• That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longe
  as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful with it than those who have inherited one....
• No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more courageous than health.
  -- Colto...
• The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman. -- Sydney Biddle Barrow
• It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it.
  -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 282...
• Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. Publius Syru
• A thing is far more likely to be like it is now than it was before or will be in the future, although this is less likely to be true, if said of the same thing sometime later.
• More knave than fool. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iv, Chap.
  iv...
• Things are more like they used to be than they are now.