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From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain.
[Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid read more
From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain.
[Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex usu
sit.]
For everything you have missed you have gained something.
For everything you have missed you have gained something.
And if you mean to profit, learn to please.
And if you mean to profit, learn to please.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
Little pains
In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
Little pains
In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
[Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
[Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]
Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
An evil gain equals a loss.
[Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]
An evil gain equals a loss.
[Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]