"Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it."
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"I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand."
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"Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one."
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"Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise."
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"If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self"
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"A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel."
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"An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife."
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"Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many."
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"Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding."
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"Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it."
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"I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking."
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"They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing."
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"He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees."
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"Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one."
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"The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest."
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"Little rogues easily become great ones."
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"Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking."
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"In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead."
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"He that takes a wife, takes care"
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"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct."
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