"Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies."
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"Never contradict anybody."
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"In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private."
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"He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter."
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"I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?"
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"The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife."
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"The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it."
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"Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses."
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"God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign."
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"Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee."
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"Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible."
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"Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy."
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"Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot."
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"Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net."
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"He that's content hath enough."
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"The Golden Age was never the present age."
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"And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of Friction, attract the Electrical Fire, and therefore take it from the Thin rubbing; the same parts immediately, as the Friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received, to any Body that has less."
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"Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope."
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"The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes."
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"If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?"
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