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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him
independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
Cobbett
The greatest of all human benefits, that, at least, without
which no other benefit can be truly enjoyed, is independence.
Park Godwin
Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread
without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other
for it than heaven itself.
Cervantes
The word independence is united to the ideas of dignity and
virtue; the word dependence, to the ideas of inferiority and
corruption.
J. Bentham
Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however
moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor
even honest.
Junius
Be and continue poor, young man, while others around you grow
rich by fraud and disloyalty; be without place or power, while
others beg their way upward; bear the pain of disappointed
hopes, while others gain the accomplishment of theirs by
flattery; forego the gracious pressure of the hand for which
others cringe and crawl. Wrap yourself in your own virtue, and
seek a friend and your daily bread. If you have in such a
course grown gray with unblemished honor, bless God, and die.
Heinzelmann
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