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"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."
"He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."
"Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly."
"Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you."
"Many foxes grow gray but few grow good."
"He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go."
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom."
"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
"Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live."
"When Wine enters, out goes the Truth."
"Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day."
"There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies."
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
"Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes."
"A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year."
"He that would fish, must venture his bait."
"I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me."
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."
"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."