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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

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Half a truth is often a great lie.

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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

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Mine is better than ours.

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The discontented man finds no easy chair.

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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

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Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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Danger is sauce for prayers.

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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

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Applause waits on success.

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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

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In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

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A penny saved is a penny earned.

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

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