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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale

They that have lived a single day have lived an age