"To each saint his candle"

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Source: Psychology: Briefer Course (1892)

Few sons attain the praise of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another

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