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• A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. -- Richard Burton (1577-1640)
• An axe stroke makes a deep wound in your leg.
• Better to die a thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Addiso
• That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ..
  . may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends....
• Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work to support yourself.
  Never depend on others for your livelihood. -- Deng Ming-Dao...
• You would rather blame yourself than others, but you don't waste much time doing either when things go wrong.
• I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime.
  Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view!...
• Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
• T is better to be vile than vile esteem'd, When not to be receives reproach of being
  And the just pleasure lost which is so deem'd, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing....