"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money."
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"But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture."
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"After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy."
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"Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security."
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"A Republic, if you can keep it."
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"What is best for people is what they do for themselves."
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"Nine Men in Ten are Suicides."
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"When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good."
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"In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles."
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"The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary."
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"Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife."
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"Little strokes fell great oaks."
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"We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."
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"He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas."
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"He that's secure is not safe."
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"It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?"
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"A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors."
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"We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."
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"A place for everything, everything in its place."
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"Kill no more pigeons than you can eat."
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