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He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. Peace

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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. Peace

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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

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A little neglect may breed great mischief.

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

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Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Marriage

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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

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The things which hurt, instruct.

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Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

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He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

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Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

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Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.

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Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. Government

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Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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