"He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich."
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"Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good."
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"Do not do that which you would not have known."
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"Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please."
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"The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it."
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"Let thy vices die before thee."
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"Tis easy to see, hard to foresee."
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"Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason."
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"He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not."
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"Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows."
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"If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?"
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"Great Modesty often hides great Merit."
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"If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear."
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"They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing."
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"The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest."
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"Little rogues easily become great ones."
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"There is none deceived but he that trusts."
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"He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things."
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"All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful"
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"Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't."
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