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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

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He that's secure is not safe.

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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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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

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Necessity never made a good bargain.

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Remember that credit is money.

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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You may delay, but time will not.

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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

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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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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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