"Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!"
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"Two dry Sticks will burn a green One."
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"If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone."
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"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 despair increaseth them."
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"If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy."
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"Great spenders are bad lenders."
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"As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly."
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"My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence."
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"Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not."
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"If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed."
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"Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year."
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"In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality."
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"Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate."
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"Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year."
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"Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?"
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"If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it."
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"Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security."
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"The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary."
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"Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?"
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"Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation."
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