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EGOTISM:

EGOTISM: He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -Benjamin Franklin We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk of ourselves at all. -La Rochefoucauld It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he wishes to be esteemed. -Vauvenargues To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -Oscar Wilde

EDUCATION:

EDUCATION: The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but difficult to enslave. -Lord Brougham Only the educated are free. -Epictetus A student may easily...be learning not to live but to reason. -Samuel Johnson He that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master -Ben Johnson Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to the uneducated,"As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead." -Diogenes Laerlius I never let my schooling interfere with my educatin. -Mark Twain

ECONOMY:

ECONOMY: Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. -Edmund Burke Die to save charges. -Robert Burton In art, economy is always beauty. -Henry Burton Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue. -G.B.Shaw

DECEPTION:

DECEPTION: It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. -La Fontaine It is more ignominious to mistrust our friends than to be deceived by them. -La Rochefoucauld One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. -Machiavelli Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. -Jean Jacques Rousseau