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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....
• Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of prince
  hey who make use of poison to show their skill in curing i...
• We work to become, not to acquire. -- Elbert Hubbard
• Those who can, do. Those can't, teach. Those who destroy everything they touch, become high school counselors.
• Perhaps the most widespread illusion is that if we were in power we would behave very differently from those who now hold it -- whe
  in truth, in order to get power we would have to become very much like them....
• Sometimes the only way out of a difficulty is through it.
• Those who get A's become professors. Those who get B's become judges.
  All the rest make the money. -- Law school maxim...
• Those who can, do. Those who can't become left-wing liberal.