"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes"
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"A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines."
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"I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night"
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"[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness."
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"It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped"
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"By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution."
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"Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free."
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"If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend."
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"The best is the cheapest."
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"Fish and visitors stink in three days."
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"The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything."
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"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."
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"Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times."
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"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."
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"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
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"Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue."
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"The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch"
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"What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?"
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"Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits."
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