"Marry above thy match and you will get a master."
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"Trouble Springs From Idleness."
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"Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself."
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"Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest."
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"Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach."
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"You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars."
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"One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults."
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"Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather."
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"...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it."
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"There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine."
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"Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune."
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"If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty."
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"Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!"
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"Hope of gain lessens pain."
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"Approve not of him who commends all you say."
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"A true friend is the greatest possesion."
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"A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance."
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"For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race."
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"You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right."
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"In success be moderate."
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