"I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives."
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"Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"Stand firm, don't flutter!"
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"Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law."
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"A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees."
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"A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches."
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"An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught."
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"There are more old drunkards than old doctors."
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"There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous."
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"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter."
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"Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly."
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"There's no gain, without pain."
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"We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages."
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"On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it."
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"Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!"
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"The only certain things in life are death and taxes!"
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"Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance."
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"One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not."
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"If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both."
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"Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities."
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