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" Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. "
Benjamin Franklin
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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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" Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money. "
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" If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. "
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" If you desire many things, many things will seem few. "
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" A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. "
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" The first mistake in public business is the going into it. "
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" 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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" Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. "
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" As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. "
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Opportunity
Great
" Honesty is the best policy. "
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" At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. "
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Age
Wit
" Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. "
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Slow
" If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. "
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You
Yourself
" Beauty and folly are old companions. "
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Beauty
Old
" Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. "
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Men
Need
" Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. "
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Will
Finance
" 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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Honest Man
Man
" Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? "
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Often
Thyself
" I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. "
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Morning
Wake Up
Up
" In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. "
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Nothing
Death
Finance
" Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. "
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Whatever
Ends
" I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. "
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Die
Eating
" Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. "
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He
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" 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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Natural
Best
" When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? "
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Will
Agree
Difficulties
" Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. "
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Brains
" 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 worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise. "
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Worst
Makes
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Man
Many