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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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

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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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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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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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Necessity never made a good bargain.

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Where liberty is, there is my country.

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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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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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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

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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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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.

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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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He that can have patience can have what he will.

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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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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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

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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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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

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

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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

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