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They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.