"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
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"Men and Melons are hard to know."
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"Success is the residue of planning."
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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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"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. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"
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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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"Half the truth is often a great lie."
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"I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil."
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"There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry."
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"Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds."
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"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."
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"Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!"
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"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."
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"When you're finished changing, you're finished."
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"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
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"Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants."
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"I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory."
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"The rotten apple spoils his companion."
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