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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
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