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• No man can be wise on an empty stomach. -- George Elio
• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. -- George Elio
• Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand. George Elio
• The only cure for grief is action. -- George Henry Lewe
• It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures.
  We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves....
• There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.