"Debt is the worst poverty."

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"Despair gives courage to a coward."

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"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."

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"He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician."

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"Good clothes open all doors."

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"What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed."

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"Nothing sharpens sight like envy."

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"He teaches me to be good that does me good."

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"Bad excuses are worse than none."

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"Good is not good, when better is expected."

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"Prospect is often better than possession."

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"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong."

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"Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all."

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"A good garden may have some weeds."

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"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."

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"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."

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"Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love."

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"A good friend is my nearest relation."

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"Lavishness is not generosity."

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"He that bringeth a present findeth the door open."

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"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."

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"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

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"It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart."

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"The devil himself is good when he is pleased."

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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

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"Eaten bread is soon forgotten."

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"Great and good are seldom the same man."

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"If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too."

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"Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven."

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"Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas."

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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

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"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

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"Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections."

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"The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir."

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"A man is not good or bad for one action."

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"A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial."

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"Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it."

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"The more laws, the more offenders."

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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

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"Old foxes want no tutors."

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