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" Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. "

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" The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. "

" No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. "

" It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. "

" Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. "

" Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. "

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" Good order is the foundation of all things. "

" If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. "

" Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. "

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