"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
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"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."
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"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
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"Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more."
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"Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting."
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do."
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"Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves."
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"The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance."
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"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy."
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"Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility."
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"You may delay, but time will not."
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"God heals, and the doctor takes the fees."
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"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
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"Beware the hobby that eats."
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"Praise to the undeserving is severe satire."
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"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience."
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"Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful."
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"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble."
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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
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"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
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