"A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather."
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"I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace."
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"Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason."
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"Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought."
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"Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense."
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"That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing."
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"What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?"
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"Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong."
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"He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now."
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"Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion."
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"None are deceived but they that confide."
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"The problem with common sense is, it isn't."
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"It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition."
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"In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind."
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"Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them."
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"I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance."
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"I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence."
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"If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves."
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"When you are in debt, then you are a slave."
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"After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second."
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