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"Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious."
"The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk."
"The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends."
"A lighthouse is more useful than a church."
"Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding"
"Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master."
"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas."
"When you are finished changing, you are finished."
"I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!"
"A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone."
"He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear."
"Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog."
"Force shites upon Reason's Back."
"Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events."
"Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy."
"If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle."
"Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures."
"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."
"I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody."
"The things which hurt, instruct."