“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”
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“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”
“Lack of money is the root of all evil”
“You never fail until you stop trying”
“Difficulties exist to be surmounted”
“A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth”
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain”
“Each of us bears his own hell”
“Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty”
“Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them”
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer”
“Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it”
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
“No one possesses unalloyed pleasure; there is some anxiety mingled with the joy”
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war”
“I would as soon leave to my son a curse as the almighty Dollar”
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete”
“Even a single hair casts a shadow”
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice”
“A shoe too large trips one up”
“Out of the frying pan and into the fire”