"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
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"Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude."
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"Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession."
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"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."
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"The best doctor gives the least medicines."
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"If you want something done, ask a busy person."
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"Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money."
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"No gains without pains."
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"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
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"He that best understands the world, least likes it"
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"Those things that hurt, instruct."
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"He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone."
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"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
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"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
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"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
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"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."
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"Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them."
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"Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly."
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"The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade."
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"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense."
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