Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him. - Henry Taylor
If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.
- Henry Taylor
Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-lov… - Henry Taylor
Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-lov…
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren. - Henry Taylor
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting. - Henry Taylor
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. - Henry Taylor
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight. - Henry Taylor
Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.
Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which… - Henry Taylor
Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which…
Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are… - Henry Taylor
Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are…
When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. - Henry Taylor
When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.
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