"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
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"It is better to take many injuries than to give one."
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"Reckless youth makes rueful age."
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"It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins."
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"If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas."
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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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"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."
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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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"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."
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"The doors of wisdom are never shut."
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"Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled."
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"Practice makes perfect."
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"Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly."
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"He that can have patience can have what he will."
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"Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body."
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"A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word."
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"To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."
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"There never was a good knife made of bad steel."
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"Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive."
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"If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves."
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