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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
[Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
[Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to read more
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she read more
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.
To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him read more
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man
Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success
Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
It is better to be faithful than famous.
It is better to be faithful than famous.