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Anyone Who Does Not Know How To Make The Most Of His Luck Has No Right To Complain If It Passes By Him.

One Should Not Talk Of Hatters In The House Of The Hanged.

Historians Ought To Be Precise, Faithful, And Unprejudiced; And Neither Interest Nor Fear, Hatred Nor Affection, Should Make Them Swerve From The Way Of Truth.

Delay Always Breeds Danger; And To Protract A Great Design Is Often To Ruin It.

If You Are Ambitious Of Climbing Up To The Difficult, And In A Manner Inaccessible, Summit Of The Temple Of Fame, Your Surest Way Is To Leave On One Hand The Narrow Path Of Poetry, And Follow The Narrower Track Of Knight-errantry, Which In A Trice May Raise You To An Imperial Throne.