"A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either."
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"you can do anything you set your mind to"
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"Lose no time; be always employed in something useful."
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"Every pot must sit on its own bottom."
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"A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently."
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"The cat in gloves catches no mice."
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"Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield."
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"There never was a good war, or a bad peace."
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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."
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"I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business."
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"Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer."
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"Idle hands are the devil's playthings."
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"Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven."
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"[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country."
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"Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems."
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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
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"There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking."
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"Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist."
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"A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar."
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"Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night."
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