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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. – Josh Billings

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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. – Josh Billings

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When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. – Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured, Remembrance of Things Past

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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. – Homer, Iliad

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