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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
[ Faults ]
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A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
[ Cheerfulness ]
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
[ Ignorance ]
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
[ Laziness ]
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A little neglect may breed great mischief.
[ Neglect ]
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A small leak can sink a great ship
[ Things and Little Things ]
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A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
[ Tact and Tactfulness ]
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
[ Admiration ]
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An old young man, will be a young old man.
[ Age and Aging ]
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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
[ Marriage ]
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Applause waits on success.
[ Popularity ]
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
[ Ignorance ]
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
[ Expenditure ]
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Beware the hobby that eats.
[ Caution ]
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
[ Expectation ]
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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
[ Necessity ]
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
[ Planning ]
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
[ Certainty ]
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Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
[ Hypocrisy ]
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Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
[ Ambiguity ]
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
[ Complaints and Complaining ]
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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
[ Contentment ]
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
[ Memory ]
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
[ Diligence ]
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
[ Relationships ]
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
[ Anxiety ]
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Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
[ Time and Time Management ]
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Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
[ Judgment and Judges ]
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Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.
[ Neighbors ]
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
[ Time and Time Management ]
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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
[ Control ]
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Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.
[ Business ]
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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
[ Habit ]
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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
[ Sleep ]
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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
[ Fashion ]
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
[ Leisure ]
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Energy and persistence alter all things.
[ Energy ]
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Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.
[ Experience ]
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
[ Genius ]
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Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
[ Reputation ]
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God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
[ Doctors ]
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God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
[ Virtue ]
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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
[ Guests ]
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Half wits talk much, but say little.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
[ Poverty and The Poor ]
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He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
[ Wealth ]
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
[ Patience ]
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