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" Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. "
Benjamin Franklin
Content
He
Nobody
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" My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. "
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" He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man. "
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" So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. "
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" Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. "
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Ends
" Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. "
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" Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. "
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" Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. "
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" To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. "
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" It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. "
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First
Desire
" Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. "
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" You may delay, but time will not. "
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Delay
Time
" He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. "
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Too
He
Having
" A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. "
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Wrapped
Himself
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" Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. "
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Marble
Dust
Injuries
" There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. "
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Time
Man
Never
" It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. "
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Than
Break
Bad Habits
" It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. "
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Time
Think
Never
" An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow. "
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Egg
Hen
Better
" A good conscience is a continual Christmas. "
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Conscience
Good
Christmas
" For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly. "
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Bird
Moral
Wish
" The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. "
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Having
Money
Use
" You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? "
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Wife
Bear
Own
" If you desire many things, many things will seem few. "
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Desire
Things
Many
" The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. "
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Happiness
Constitution
Yourself
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Your
Write
Injuries
" There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands. "
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Stronger
Natural
Best
" God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. "
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Now
Wonders
God
" When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? "
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Will
Agree
Difficulties
" Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. "
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You
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