"It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man."
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"Hunger never saw bad bread."
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"If you have time don't wait for time."
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"If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?"
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"A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost."
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"The early morning has gold in its mouth."
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"Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines."
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"Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass."
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"Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped."
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"Without justice, courage is weak."
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"All would live long, but none would be old."
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"Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other."
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"If you want to be loved, love and be loveable."
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"You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion"
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"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness."
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"Hunger is the best pickle."
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"Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own."
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"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
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"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy."
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"Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities."
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