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• So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
• A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxviii, Of Solitude...
• Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. -- Trollope
• I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in.
• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. -- Samuel Johnso
• Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affai...
• The job of a Dean is to raise as much money as he can, then spend it as fast as he can.
• But, he's MUCH cuter when he pouts.