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" My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier. "

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" Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. "

" The friendship that can cease has never been real. "

" A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. "

" Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. "

" The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. "

" Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. "

" It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good. "

" A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. "

" Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless. "

" Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. "

" Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. "

" Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. "

" I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living. "

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" Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others. "

" Why do you not practice what you preach. "

" The scars of others should teach us caution. "

" Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. "