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The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.
If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.
An education is the investment with the greatest returns.
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.
Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.
A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.
By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.
Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.
If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.
Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.
If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.
A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.
A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.
A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
An investment in education always pays the highest returns.
He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.
Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.
If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.
Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty