"Don't cry over spilled milk"
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"By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old."
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"As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts."
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"The world is run by the people who show up."
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"Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it.""
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"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."
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"There is no little enemy"
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"Observe all men, thyself most."
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"The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt."
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"In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable."
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"Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great"
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"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
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"Applause waits on success."
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"He who is in love with himself has no rivals."
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"He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l."
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"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
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"Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance."
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"A friend in need is a friend indeed!"
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"The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown."
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"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
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