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" A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. "
Benjamin Franklin
Learned
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" He that sows thorns should never go barefoot. "
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" There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. "
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" Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. "
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" Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. "
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" A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. "
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" If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately. "
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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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" He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. "
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" The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. "
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" The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. "
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" He that speaks much, is much mistaken. "
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Speaks
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" I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them. "
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" And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. "
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" Genius without education is like silver in the mine. "
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" Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. "
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Take
House
" Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. "
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Healthy
Health
" Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. "
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Achievement
Progress
" Games lubricate the body and the mind. "
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" Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. "
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Obedience
God
" Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. "
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" Honesty is the best policy. "
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" Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. "
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" Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. "
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Person
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" A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. "
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Like
" He that lives upon hope will die fasting. "
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Lives
" In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. "
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