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• As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
  -- Jean de La Bruyere...
• Many a man has found the acquisition of wealth only a change, not an end of miseries, for often a great fortune is a great slavery.
  The person who has it is a slave to it, rather than being the master of it for great wealth and contentment seldom share the same household....
• He is poor whose expenses exceeds his income. -- La Bruyere
• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste
  here are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience....
• Modesty is to merit as shades to figures in a picture
  giving it strength and beauty. -- Jean de La Bruyere...
• A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and miserable dinner. -- Jean de La Bruyere
• We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much. -- Jean de La Bruyere
• We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much. -- Jean de la Bruyere
• It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.
  -- Jean de La Bruyere...