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/ page 859 of 1205 /Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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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 takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
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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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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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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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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
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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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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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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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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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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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When in doubt, don't.
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