"He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor."
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"Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid."
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"A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon."
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"Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?"
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"History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth."
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"Beauty and folly are old companions."
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"The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see."
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"It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part."
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"Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable."
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"A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang."
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"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."
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"The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it."
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"The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends"
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"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires."
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"Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly."
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"Let thy vices die before thee."
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"Drive thy business or it will drive thee."
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"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."
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"Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
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"Tis easy to see, hard to foresee."
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