"You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn."
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"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."
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"There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever."
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"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."
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"When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties"
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"Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself"
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"Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own."
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"After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together."
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"Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life."
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"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
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"Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day."
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"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."
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"God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'"
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"An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due."
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"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account."
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"It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations... He would take this province under His protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, and unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger."
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"Lying rides upon debt's back."
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"I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest."
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"If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time."
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"What I am to be, I am now becoming."
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