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Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .
The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.
The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.
I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.
The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great
After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended
Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.
Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.
Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.
He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.
Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.
The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.
Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.
Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !