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Benjamin
Franklin |
Born January 17, 1706,
Boston, Massachusetts Bay
Died April 17, 1790 (aged 84), Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Nationality American
Spouse Deborah Read
Profession: Scientist, Writer, Politician |
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as
improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you
were to die tomorrow.
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
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Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your
wife?
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You may delay, but time will not.
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what
remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good
ones.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us
happy.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful?
He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is
content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love
without marriage.
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their
difficulties by arbitration?
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last
part moves, her last, the tongue.
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When in doubt, don't.
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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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Well done is better than well said.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we
shall all hang separately.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect
to our political interests, than perhaps any other under
heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his
circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of
improvement and for acquiring information.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain
stupid.
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Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from
needless ease.
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't
have brains enough to be honest.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from
needless ease.
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't
have brains enough to be honest.
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow
never comes.
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at
conclusions.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
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Time is money.
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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do
not generally like to take the trouble of considering and
carrying into execution new projects. The best public
measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom,
but forced by the occasion.
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Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are
generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory,
sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of
more use to them.
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They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary
security, deserve neither liberty or security.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same
time truly virtuous.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good
people more easily and frequently fall than that of
defrauding the government.
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish
our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result
is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and
to do that which happens to be easier.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and
to know one's self.
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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog,
and ready money.
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The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the
pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor
will he ever receive either.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our
own ignorance.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue
happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without
excuse.
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me
and I learn.
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of
everybody.
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Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine
teeth.
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
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Remember that credit is money.
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place,
but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong
thing at the tempting moment.
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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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Observe all men, thyself most.
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put
her in.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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Never confuse motion with action.
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and
repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is
nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it
one has the more one wants.
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Mine is better than ours.
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state
in which you will find solid happiness.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they
are seventy five.
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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really
selling himself to it.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure
the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom
executed.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut
afterwards.
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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and
only one bad one to lose it.
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle
man who is the miserable man.
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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind
I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine
furniture.
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two
cats.
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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished
at the edges.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for
the mind as well as the body.
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant
one.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.
There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
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A small leak can sink a great ship.
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are
immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous
ones.
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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that
of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious
work of the world.
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,
depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools
do.
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Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a
little security will deserve neither and lose both.
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Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither
liberty nor security.
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Applause waits on success.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account
for every idle silence.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and
let every new year find you a better man.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be
happy.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to
learn.
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great
ship.
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Beware the hobby that eats.
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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell
thy necessities.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and
taxes.
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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win
them.
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to
reach out.
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Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is
the stuff life is made of.
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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make
the worst of us good.
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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth
writing.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no
other.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no
other.
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Fatigue is the best pillow.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of
being obliged, by better information or fuller
consideration, to change opinions, even on important
subjects, which I once thought right but found to be
otherwise.
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you
live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to
build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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God helps those who help themselves.
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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest
man.
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
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Half a truth is often a great lie.
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a
book.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in
danger of having both of them borrowed.
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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you
another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for
anything else.
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well
be suspected of doing everything for money.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives
to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then
he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
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He that rises late must trot all day.
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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all
he knows or all he sees.
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He that's secure is not safe.
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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a
sundial in the shade?
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Honesty is the best policy.
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their
faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of
good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that
occur every day.
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Hunger is the best pickle.
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind
are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of
the value of things.
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I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it
wrong.
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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat
and old.
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as
sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its
beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors
have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the
first.
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning
paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not
on it, I get up.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his
troubles.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it
from him.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till
they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very
little printed.
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time
must be the greatest prodigality.
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If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the
philosopher's stone.
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If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like,
serve yourself.
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow
some.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead,
either write something worth reading or do things worth
writing.
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats
twice as much as nature requires.
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith,
but by the want of it.
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except
death and taxes.
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Industry need not wish.
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without
goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never
a truly great man that was not at the same time truly
virtuous.
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy
those that follow.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the
impotence of wealth.
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