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" You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? "
Benjamin Franklin
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" Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. "
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" Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. "
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" Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. "
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" Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. "
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" Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. "
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" Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. "
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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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" I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. "
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" God helps those who help themselves. "
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" If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. "
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" Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass. "
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" Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. "
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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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" How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. "
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" There was never a good war, or a bad peace. "
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" Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. "
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" I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. "
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" Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. "
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