Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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