"What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue."
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"O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?"
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"Knowledge of the investment is most profitable"
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"Life is a kind of chess."
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"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
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"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief."
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"Great talkers, little doers."
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"Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely."
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"A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed."
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"No nation has ever been ruined by trade."
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"We can defer, yet time is most certainly not."
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"Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety."
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"We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
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"Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither."
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"That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously."
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"To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new."
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"The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author."
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"It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent."
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"Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself."
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"Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom."
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