"Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it."
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"Success has ruin'd many a man."
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"If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both."
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"Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net."
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"The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible."
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"While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns."
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"If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday."
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"You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor."
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"E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within."
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"Display is as false as it is costly."
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"Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests."
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"He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors"
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"The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel."
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"When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep."
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"When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views."
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"It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation."
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"The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse."
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"The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors."
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"Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse."
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"Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley."
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