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  Poor Richard's Almanac introduction Life of Benjamin Franklin, followed by aphorisms one through ninety
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  nine of six hundred seventy eight Life of Benjamin Franklin opposite historic Old South Church
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  in Boston. On January sixth, seventeen o six, was born Benjamin Franklin.
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  Benjamin was the fifteenth child of Josiah Franklin, whose occupation was that of
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  a tallow chandler or a candle maker. Business was not prosperous, and the
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  Franklin family was reared in very humble circumstances. As a child, Benjamin hungered
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  for books and knowledge. During the two years that his father was able to
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  send him to school, he showed remarkable aptitude and industry, and rapidly outdistanced
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  his fellow pupils. The first book which Franklin read was Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
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  By trading and borrowing, he managed to secure other volumes. His passion for
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  reading was so intense that he attracted the attention of a kind hearted Boston merchant,
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  who gave the boy access to his well stocked library. Franklin read only
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  books which could add to his education, and read them with a thoroughness that
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  extracted every bit of useful knowledge. After leaving school, Franklin was apprenticed to
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  his brother James in the printing trade. His wage was very small, and
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  he had to live most frugally. James started a newspaper, and Benjamin set
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  type and distributed the sheets. One day, he anonymously contributed some verses and
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  apothegms, and was overjoyed to find them accepted and published. When his brother
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  discovered that he was the contributor, an altercation broke out between the two,
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  due principally to the ill temper of James. The quarrel was finally the cause
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  of Benjamin's leaving Boston and going to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, Franklin obtained work
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  with kind a printer. His lodgings were found at the house of mister Reed,
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  with whose pretty daughter, Deborah, he promptly fell in love. Missus
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  Reed, however, counseled the two to postpone the marriage until Franklin should earn
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  sufficient to maintain his own household. He was but eighteen years old at this
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  time. Sir William Keith, governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, became acquainted
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  with Franklin and offered to set him up in the printing business. Franklin,
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  of course accepted at Keith's suggestion, he sailed to England to purchase an up
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  to date outfit. Arrived there, he found that Keith was without credit.
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  His beautiful plans went for naught, and he was stranded in England without funds
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  or prospects. It took him several years to work his way back to America.
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  When he returned, the first news to greet Franklin was the marriage of
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  Deborah, reed to another man. At twenty two years of age. Franklin
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  had not made much progress toward the goal of his life ambition, but nothing
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  daunted. He applied himself with greater industry, greater self sacrifice, and greater
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  perseverance. He kept plugging away at his trade of printer and entered into business
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  ventures with other men, all of which proved rapid failures. Finally, he
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  struck out for himself. Coincidentally, Deba Reid's husband died and Franklin took her
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  to wife. The young couple had to live on close margin for a few
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  years. When Franklin was twenty seven years of age, he evolved the idea
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  which opened the road to fame and fortune. This was Poor Richard's Almanac.
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  The first number had a tremendous sale. His homely trait to common sense sayings
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  achieved wide popularity, and each succeeding issue found more subscribers than its predecessor.
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  The general recognition and respect gained for Franklin through the Almanac gave him the opportunity
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  to enter public life. This sphere of activity was greatly to his liking.
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  He held important offices and introduced many splendid reforms into the municipal government. Franklin's
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  pet project was an efficient institute of learning. When he was thirty seven years
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  old, his plans materialized into the founding of an academy from which has grown
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  the Great University of Pennsylvania. The scientists of Europe were at this time becoming
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  aware of a mysterious force, which they named electricity. Mushenbruick, a German,
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  came forth with the discovery of the leyden Jar. Franklin immediately devoted himself
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  to a study of electricity. The subject proved too interesting, so full of
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  possibilities, that he sold out his printing business in order to devote his entire
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  effort to the new field. His business started on nothing brought the handsome price
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  of ninety thousand dollars. When Franklin declared his belief that electricity and lightning were
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  identical, the whole world left. He then made his famous kite test and
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  proved his theory. This demonstration gained world recognition for him as a scientist and
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  won him many honors. The Colonies were now passing through the turbulent period preceding
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  the Revolutionary War. Franklin was a foremost figure in public life and became the
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  Commissioner of the Colonies to England. The first cause for provocation on the part
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  of the Colonies was the Stamp Act, which imposed an enormous tax on deeds,
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  college degrees, and printed matter. England sought to meet the expenses of
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  the French Indian War by this tax. Franklin's efficient representation and effective pleading secured
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  its repeal in seventeen sixty six. However, one year later Parliament enacted a
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  more obnoxious bill placing a heavy duty on tea, glass and other commodities.
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  Then it was that certain indignant citizens of Boston held their Boston Tea and brought
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  upon the heads of the community they ill considered hateful Boston Port Bill. The
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  city was virtually put into a state of seizure by the British under General Gage.
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  This final action precipitated the crisis, and the Revolutionary war was on.
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  Gage made his disastrous march to Conquord and Lexington and bunker Hill ended in a
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  triumph for American pluck. Although in favor of settling the dispute by arbitration,
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  Franklin was as zealous a patriot as any. He was a member of the
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  First Continental Congress and helped frame the Declaration of Independence. Later, he went
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  to Paris as special envoy to France for the Colonies. He was received with
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  great acclaim and was accorded many honors. His mission of enlisting France's aid in
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  the struggle was completely successful. Helped by the money of France and by the
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  valor of such men as Lafayette, the revolution triumphed. After an absence from
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  America of nine years, Franklin returned. He was given a royal reception.
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  Although seventy seven years old now, he still gave his country the best that
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  was in him until his death on April seventeenth, seventeen ninety At his burial,
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  twenty thousand persons gathered to do him respect and honor. Franklin's life has
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  been called the most interesting and the most successful lived by any American, and
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  the explanation is found in the rule that guided him throughout his career to go
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  straight forward in doing what appears to be right, leaving the consequences to providence.
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  End of introduction. Now Here are aphorisms one through ninety nine. One
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  A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent? Two
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  A cold april the barn will fill. Three. A countryman between two lawyers
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  is like a fish between two cats. Four, act uprightly and despise calumny.
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  Dirt may stick to a mud wall, but not to polished marble.
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  Five A cipher and humility make the other figures and virtues of tenfold value.
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  Six. A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
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  Seven. A father's a treasure, A brother's a comfort, A friend is
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  both. Eight A fat kitchen a lean will nine. A fine genius in
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  his own country is like gold in the mine. Ten. A flatterer never
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  seems absurd, the flattered always takes his word. Eleven. After three days,
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  men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
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  Twelve. After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. Thirteen.
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  A full belly is the mother of all evil. Fourteen. A full belly
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  makes a dull brain. Fifteen. A good example is the best sermon.
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  Sixteen. A good lawyer a bad neighbor. Seventeen. A good man is
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  seldom uneasy, an ill one never easy. Eighteen. A house without woman
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  and firelight is like a body without soul or sprite. Nineteen. A lean
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  award is better than a fat judgment. Twenty A learned blockhead is a greater
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  blockhead than an ignorant one. Twenty one. A lie stands on one leg
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  truth on two. Twenty two. A life of leisure and a life of
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  laziness are two things. Twenty three. A light purse is a heavy curse.
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  Twenty four. A little house well filled, a little field well tilled,
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  and a little wife well willed are great riches. Twenty five. All
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  blood is alike ancient twenty six. All mankind are beholden to him that is
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  kind to the good. Twenty seven. All things are cheap to the saving,
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  dear to the wasteful. Twenty eight. All things are easy to industry,
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  all things difficult to sloth. Twenty nine. All would live long,
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  but none would be old. Thirty A long life may not be good enough,
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  but a good life is long enough. Thirty one. A man in
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  a passion rides a mad horse. Thirty two. A man without a wife
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  is but a half a man. Thirty three. A man without ceremony has
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  need of great merit in its place. Thirty four. Ambition often spends foolishly
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  what avarice had wickedly collected. Thirty five. A mob's a monster, heads
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  enough, but no brains thirty six. A modern wit is one of David's
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  fools. Thirty seven. An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow.
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  Thirty eight. An empty bag cannot stand upright thirty nine. A new truth
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  is a truth, and an old error is an error, though Cloude Pete
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  won't allow either. Forty Anger and folly walk cheek by Joel repentants treads on
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  both their heels. Forty one. Anger is never without a reason, but
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  seldom with a good one. Forty two. Anger warms the invention, but
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  overheats the oven. Forty three. An honest man will receive neither money nor
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  praise that is not his due. Forty four. An hundred thieves cannot strip
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  one naked man, especially if his skin's off. Forty five. An ill
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  wound, but not an ill name, may be healed. Forty six.
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  An innocent plow man is more worthy than a vicious prince. Forty seven.
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  Anoint of and he'll stab you. Stab him and he'll anoint you. Forty
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  eight. An old man in a house is a good sign. Forty nine.
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  An old young man will be a young old man. Fifty An ounce
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  of width that is bought is worth a pound that is taught. Fifty one.
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  An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife fifty two. A pair of
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  good ears will drain dry one hundred tongues fifty three. A plowman on his
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  legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. Fifty four. A proof
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  not of him that commends all you say. Fifty five. A quarrelsome man
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  has no good neighbors, a quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. Fifty seven.
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  Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself fifty
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  eight. As charms are a nonsense, nonsense is a charm fifty nine.
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  Eske and have is sometimes dear buying. Sixty A soft tongue may strike hard
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  sixty one. As pride increases, fortune declines sixty two. As sour places
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  meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts. Sixty three. A temper
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  to bear much will have much to bear sixty four. A wicked hero will
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  turn his back to an innocent coward sixty five. As we must account for
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  every idle word, so we must for every idol's silence. Sixty six.
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  At a great pennyworth, pause awhile sixty seven, a traveler should have a
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  hog's nose, deers legs, and an ass's back sixty eight. At the
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  working man's house, hunger looks in but dares not enter sixty nine. At
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  twenty years of age, the will reigns at thirty, the wit at forty.
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  The judgment seventy bad commentators spoil the best of books seventy one. Bad
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  gains are truly losses seventy two. Bargaining has neither friends nor relations seventy three.
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  Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle. Seventy four, be it war
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  with your vices, at peace with your neighbors. Seventy five. Beauty and
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  folly are old companions. Seventy six. Being ignorant is not so much a
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  shame as being unwilling to learn. Seventy seven. Ben beats his pate and
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  fancies wit will come, but he may not. There is nobody at home.
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  Seventy eight. Be not negaratively of what costs thee nothing as courtesy,
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  counsel, and countenance. Seventy nine. Be slow in choosing a friend,
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  slower in changing eighty Better is a little with content than much with contention.
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  Eighty one better slip with foot than tongue. Eighty two. Beware beware he'll
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  cheat without scruple, who can without fear? Eighty three. Beware of him
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  that is slow to anger. He is angry for something, and will not
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  be pleased for nothing. Eighty four. Beware of little expenses. A small
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  leak will sink a great ship. Eighty five. Beware of meat twice boiled
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  and an old foe reconciled. Eighty six. Beware of the young doctor and
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  the old barber. Eighty seven. Blame all and praise all are two blockheads.
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  Eighty eight. Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never
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  be disappointed. Eighty nine by what thou hast no need of, and ere
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  long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. Ninety by diligence and patience the mouse bit
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  in two the cable ninety one. Calamity and prosperity are the touchstones of integrity.
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  Ninety two. Ceremony is not civility nor civility ceremony ninety three. Changing
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  countries or beds cures neither a bed manager nor a fever. Ninety four.
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  Cheese and salt meat should be sparingly eat ninety five. Children and princes will
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  quarrel for trifles. Ninety six. Clean your finger before you point at my
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  spots ninety seven. Clearly spoken, mister Fogg, you explain English by Greek.
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  Ninety eight. Content and riches seldom meet together. Riches take thou contentment
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  id rather ninety nine. Content is the philosopher's stone that turns all it touches
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  into gold. And of section oh aphorisms one hundred through one hundred and ninety
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  nine one hundred. Content makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.
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  One hundred and one. Courage would fight, but discretion won't let him.
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  One hundred and two. Creditors have better memories than debtors. One hundred
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  and three Cut the wings of your hens and hopes, lest they lead you
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  to a wary dance after them. One hundred and four. Danger is sauce
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  for prayers. One hundred and five. Dally not with other folks, women,
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  or money. One hundred and six. Death takes no bribes. One
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  hundred and seven. Declaiming against pride is not always a sign of humility.
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  One hundred and eight. Defer not thy well doing, be not like Saint
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  George, who is always on horseback but never rides on. One hundred and
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  nine. Deny self for self's sake. One hundred and ten. Despair ruins
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  some presumption many one hundred and eleven Different sets, like different clocks, may
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  all be near the matter, though they don't quite agree. One hundred and
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  twelve. Diligence is the mother of good luck. One hundred and thirteen.
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  Diligence overcomes difficulty. Sloth makes them one hundred fourteen. Distrust and caution are
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  the parents of security. One hundred fifteen do good to thy friend to keep
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  him, to thy enemy to gain him one hundred sixteen. Doing an injury
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  puts you below your enemy. Revenging one makes you, but even with him
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  forgiving it sets you above him. One seventeen. Do not do that which
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  you would not have known one hundred eighteen. Do me the favored to deny
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  me at once one nineteen. Don't go to the doctor with every distemper,
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  nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst
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  one twenty don't judge of men's wealth or piety their Sunday appearances. One twenty
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  one. Don't misinform your doctor or you're a lawyer. One twenty two.
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  Don't overload gratitude. If you do, she'll kick one twenty three. Don't
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  think to hunt two hairs with one dog. One twenty four. Don't throw
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  stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass. One twenty five.
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  Don't value a man for the quality he is of, but for the qualities
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  he possesses. One twenty six. Dost thou love life, then do not
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  squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. One twenty seven.
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  Drink does not drown care, but waters it and makes it grow faster.
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  One twenty eight. Drink water, put the money in your pocket,
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  and leave the dry belly ache in the punch bowl. One twenty nine.
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  Drive thy business, or it will drive thee one thirty Drunkenness, That worst
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  of evils, makes some men fools, some beasts, some devils. One
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  thirty one. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy,
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  wealthy, and wise. One thirty two. Eat few suppers, and you'll
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  need few medicines. One thirty three. Eat to please thyself, but dress
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  to please others. One thirty four. Employ thy time well, if thou
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  meanest to gain leisure. One thirty five. Ever since follies have pleased,
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  fools have been able to divert One thirty six. Every man has assurance enough
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  to boast of his honesty, few of their understanding. One thirty seven.
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  Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other. One
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  thirty eight. Eyes and priests bear no jests. One thirty nine. Fear
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  God, and your enemies will fear you. One forty Fear not death,
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  for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal. One forty
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  one Fear to do ill and you need fear nought else one two fine linen
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  girls and gold so bright, choose not to take by candlelight. One forty
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  three. Fish and visitors still in three days. One forty four Fly pleasures,
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  and they'll follow you. One forty five. Find pride of dress is
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  sure an empty curse. Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. One
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  forty six. Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. One forty
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  seven. Fools multiply folly. One forty eight. Fools need advice most,
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  but wise men only are the better for it. One forty nine. For
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  age and want save while you may no morning sun lasts a whole day.
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  One fifty For one poor man, there are an hundred indigent. One fifty
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  one for want of a nail, the shoe is lost for want of a
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  shoe, the horse is lost. For want of a horse, the rider
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  is lost. One fifty two. Friendship cannot live without ceremony nor without civility.
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  One fifty three. Friendship increases by visiting friends, but by visiting seldom
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  one fifty four. Full of courtesy, full of craft. One fifty five.
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  Generous minds are all of kin one fifty six genius without education is like
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  silver in the mine. One fifty seven. Gifts burst rocks. One fifty
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  eight. Gifts much expected are paid not given. One fifty nine. Give
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  me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider. One sixty
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  glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended. One
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  sixty one. God gives all things to industry. One sixty two. God
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  heals, and the doctor takes the fees. One sixty three. God helps
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  them that help themselves. One sixty four. God parents and instructors can never
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  be requited. One sixty five. Good sense is a thing all need,
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  few have, and none think they want. One sixty six. Good wives
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  and good plantations are made by good husbands. One sixty seven. Doest thou
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  thy house, and let not that grace thee. One sixty eight. Graft
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  good fruit all, or graft not at all. One sixty nine. Great
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  alms giving lessons no man's living. One seventy. Great estates may venture,
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  more little boats must keep near shore one seventy one. Great famine when wolves
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  eat wolves one seventy two. Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.
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  One seventy three. Great marriage is coi as well as great pride one
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  seventy four. Great modesty often hides great merit one seventy five. Great spenders
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  are bad lenders. One seventy six. Great talkers little doers. One seventy
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  seven. Great talkers should be cropped, for they've no need of ears.
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  One seventy eight. Half hospitality opens his door and shuts up his countenance one
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  seventy nine. Half the truth is often a great lie one eighty half.
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  Wits talk much, but say little one eighty one. Happy that nation,
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  fortunate, that age whose history is not diverting. One eighty two. Happy's
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  the wooing that's not long a doing one eighty three. Happy tom crump ne'er
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  sees his own hump. One eighty four. Haste makes waste one eighty five.
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  Harry's smatter has a mouth for every matter. One eighty six. Have
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  you somewhat to do tomorrow? Do it today? One eighty seven. Having
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  been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it is. One eighty
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  eight. Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.
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  One eighty nine. Here a reason, or she'll make you feel her
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  one ninety he does not possess wealth, it possesses him. One ninety one.
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  He has changed his one eyed horse for a blind one. One ninety
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  two. He has lost his boots, but saved his spurs. One ninety
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  three. He is a governor that governs his passions, and he is a
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  servant that serves them. One ninety four. He is ill clothe to his
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  bear of virtue. One ninety five. He is no clown that drives the
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  plow, but he that doth clownish things. One ninety six. He is
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  not well bred that cannot bear ill breeding in others. One ninety seven.
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  Help hands, for I have no lands. One ninety eight. He makes
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  a foe who makes a jest one ninety nine. Here comes the orator,
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  with his flood of words and his drop of reason. End of session one
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  Aphorisms two hundred through two ninety nine. Two hundred He's a fool that cannot
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  conceal his wisdom. Two oh one. He's a fool that makes his doctor
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  his heir. Two o two. He's gone and for got nothing but to
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  say farewell to his creditors. Two o three. He's the best physician that
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  knows the worthlessness of the most medicines two o four. He that best understands
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  the world least likes it. Two o five. He that builds before he
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  counts the cost acts foolishly. And he that counts before he builds finds he
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  did not count wisely. Two o six. He that buys by the penny
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  maintains not only himself but other people. Two o seven. He that by
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  the plow would thrive himself must either hold or drive. Two eight. He
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  that can bear a reproof and mend by it, if he is not wise,
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  is in a fair way of being so. Two o nine. He
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  that can compose himself is wiser than he that composes books. Two ten.
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  He that can have patience can have what he will. Two eleven. He
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  that cannot bear with other people's passions cannot govern his own. Two twelve.
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  He that cannot obey cannot command. To thirteen. He that can take rest
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  is greater than he that can take cities. Two fourteen. He that can
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  travel well afoot keeps a good horse. Two fifteen. He that doth what
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  he should not shall feel what he would not. Two sixteen. He that
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  drinks fast pays slow. To seventeen. He that drinks his cider alone,
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  Let him catch his horse alone. To eighteen. He that falls in love
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  with himself will have no rivals. To nineteen. He that goes far to
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  marry will either deceive or be deceived. Two twenty. He that has a
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  trade has an office of profit and honor. Tw twenty one. He that
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  has not got a wife is not yet a complete man. To twenty two.
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  He that hath a trade hath an estate. Two twenty three. He
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  that is of opinion money will do everything, may well be suspected of doing
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  everything for money. Two twenty four. He that is rich need not live
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  sparingly, And he that can live sparingly need not be rich. Two twenty
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  five. He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas two twenty
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  six. He that never eats too much will never be lazy. To twenty
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  seven. He that pays for work before it's done has but a pennyworth for
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  twopence. Two twenty eight. He that pursues two hairs at once does not
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  catch one, and lets t'other go. Tw twenty nine. He that resolves
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  to mend hereafter resolves not to mend now. Two thirty. He that riseth
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  late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business by night.
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  Two thirty one. He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.
• 35:36
  Two thirty two. He that's content hath enough. He that complains has too
• 35:42
  much. Two thirty three. He that sells upon trust loses many friends and
• 35:49
  always wants money. Two thirty four. He that sews thorns should never go
• 35:54
  barefoot. Two thirty five. He that speaks ill of the mayor will buy
• 36:00
  her to thirty six. He that speaks much is much mistaken. To thirty
• 36:07
  seven. He that spills the rum loses that only. He that drinks it
• 36:13
  often loses both that and himself. Two thirty eight. He that takes a
• 36:20
  wife takes care to thirty nine. He that waits upon a fortune is never
• 36:25
  sure of a dinner. Two forty. He that won't be counseled can't be
• 36:30
  helped. To forty one. He that would catch fish must venture his baked
• 36:37
  to forty two. He that would have a short lent, let him borrow
• 36:42
  money to be repaid at easter. Two forty three. He that would live
• 36:49
  in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows, nor judge all
• 36:52
  he sees. Two forty four. He that would rise at court must begin
• 37:00
  by creeping two forty five. He that would travel much should eat little.
• 37:07
  To forty six. He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares two forty seven.
• 37:15
  He who buys had need have one hundred eyes, But one's enough for him
• 37:19
  that sells the stuff. Two forty eight. Hold your counsel before dinner.
• 37:24
  The full belly hates thinking as well as acting two forty nine. Honors change
• 37:32
  manners two fifty Honor thy father and mother. I e live so as to
• 37:38
  be an honor to them when they are dead. Two fifty one. Hope
• 37:45
  and a red rag are baits for men and mackerel two fifty two. Hope
• 37:52
  of gain lessons pain two fifty three. How few there are who have courage
• 37:59
  enough to own them faults two fifty four. Hunger is the best pickle.
• 38:06
  Two fifty five. Hunger never saw bad bread. To fifty six. Idleness
• 38:13
  is the dead sea that swallows all virtues to fifty seven. Idleness is the
• 38:21
  greatest prodigality to fifty eight. If it were not for the belly, the
• 38:27
  back might wear a gold two fifty nine. If Jack's in love, he's
• 38:32
  no judge of Jill's beauty two sixty. If man could have half his wishes,
• 38:38
  he would double his troubles to sixty one. If passion drives, let
• 38:45
  reason hold the reins to sixty two. If pride leaves the van beggary brings
• 38:52
  up the rear to sixty three. If thou hast wit and learning, add
• 38:58
  to it wisdom and modesty two sixty four. If thou injuriest conscience, it
• 39:05
  will have its revenge on thee To sixty five. If thou wouldst live long,
• 39:10
  live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. Sixty six. If
• 39:17
  wind blows on you through a hole, make your will and take care of
• 39:22
  your soul to sixty seven. If worldly goods cannot save me from death,
• 39:28
  they ought not to hinder me my eternal life to sixty eight. If you'd
• 39:34
  be beloved, make yourself amiable to sixty nine. If you desire many things,
• 39:40
  many things seem but a few two seventy If you'd have a servant that
• 39:46
  you like, serve yourself to seventy one. If you'd have it done,
• 39:53
  go if not sinned, two seventy two. If you'd know the value of
• 40:00
  money, go and borrow some two seventy three. If you'd lose a troublesome
• 40:07
  visitor, lend him money two seventy four. If you do what you would
• 40:13
  not, you must hear what you would not two seventy five. If you
• 40:20
  have no money in your pot, have some in your mouth two seventy six.
• 40:25
  If you have time, don't wait for time. Two seventy seven.
• 40:31
  If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's
• 40:35
  stone. Two seventy eight. If your head is wax, don't walk in
• 40:40
  the sun two seventy nine. If you ride a horse, sit close and
• 40:46
  tight. If you ride a man, sit easy and light two eighty If
• 40:52
  your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other
• 40:55
  world? To eighty one. If if you would be loved, love and
• 41:00
  be lovable two eighty two. If you would be revenged of your enemy,
• 41:08
  govern yourself to eighty three. If you would have guests, marry with cheer,
• 41:15
  be so yourself, or so at least appear to eighty four. If
• 41:21
  you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
• 41:28
  To eighty five. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you
• 41:30
  are dead and rotten. Either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
• 41:37
  To eighty six. If you would reap praise, you must sow the
• 41:40
  seeds gentle words and useful deeds. To eighty seven. Ignorance leads men into
• 41:49
  a party, and shame keeps them from getting out again. To eighty eight.
• 41:54
  I have never seen the philosopher's stone that turns lead into gold, but
• 41:59
  I have no the pursuit of it turn a man's gold into lead. Two
• 42:04
  eighty nine. Ill company is like a dog who dirts those most that he
• 42:08
  loves best. Two ninety Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten. To
• 42:19
  ninety one, i'le warrant she goes before rashness, who'd thought it comes sneaking
• 42:24
  after To ninety two. Industry pays debts, despair increases them two ninety three.
• 42:35
  In success be moderate two ninety four Interest, which blinds some people,
• 42:40
  enlightens others two ninety five. In the affairs of this world, men are
• 42:47
  saved not by faith, but by the want of it. To ninety six.
• 42:52
  I saw a few die of hunger, of eating one hundred thousand,
• 42:59
  ninety seven Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy
• 43:05
  two ninety eight. It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
• 43:10
  Two ninety nine. It is ill jesting with the joiner's tools, worse
• 43:15
  with the doctors, and of section two aphorisms three hundred through three ninety nine.
• 43:27
  Three hundred. It is ill manners to silence a fool, and cruelty
• 43:31
  to let him go on. Three o one. It is not leisure that
• 43:37
  is not used. Three o two. It is wise not to seek a
• 43:43
  secret, and honest not to reveal it. Three o three. It's common
• 43:49
  for men to give pretended reasons instead of one real one. Three o four.
• 43:55
  It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself three
• 44:01
  o five. Jack little, sewed, little, and little he'll reap.
• 44:07
  Three o six. Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming. Three o
• 44:14
  seven. Keep thou from the opportunity, and God will keep thee from the
• 44:19
  sin. Three o eight. Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep
• 44:24
  thee. Three o nine. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half
• 44:31
  shut afterwards. Three ten. Keep your mouth wet, feet dry three eleven.
• 44:39
  Kings and bears often worry their keepers three twelve. Kings have long arms,
• 44:47
  but misfortune longer, Let none think themselves out of her reach three thirteen.
• 44:57
  Late children early orphans. Three fourteen. Laws like the cobwebs, catch
• 45:04
  small flies, great ones break through before your eyes. Three fifteen. Laws
• 45:10
  too gentle are seldom obeyed, too severe seldom executed. Three sixteen. Laziness
• 45:20
  travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Three seventeen. Learn of the
• 45:27
  skillful he that teaches himself hath a fool for his master. Three eighteen.
• 45:35
  Lend money to an enemy, and thou to gain him to a friend,
• 45:38
  and thou'lt lose him. Three nineteen. Let all men know THEE, but
• 45:45
  no men know THEE thoroughly. Men freely forward that see the shallows. Three
• 45:52
  twenty Let every new year find you a better man. Three twenty one.
• 45:58
  Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou
• 46:02
  wilt. Three twenty two. Let thy discontents be thy secrets. If the
• 46:08
  world knows them to, will despise THEE and increase them. Three twenty three.
• 46:15
  Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely. Three twenty
• 46:21
  four. Let thy vices die before THEE. Three twenty five. Liberality is
• 46:29
  not giving much, but giving wisely. Three twenty six. Light gains,
• 46:36
  heavy purses three twenty seven. Light healed mothers make leaden healed daughters. Three
• 46:45
  twenty eight. Light purse, heavy heart. Three twenty nine. Little rogues
• 46:52
  easily become great ones three thirty. Little strokes fell great oaks. Three thirty
• 47:01
  one Look before, or you'll find yourself behind three thirty two. Lost time
• 47:10
  is never found again three thirty three. Love and be loved three thirty four.
• 47:20
  Love cough and a smoke can't well be hid. Three thirty five.
• 47:25
  Lover and lordship, hate companions three thirty six. Lovers, travelers, and
• 47:34
  poets will give money to be heard three thirty seven. Love well, whip
• 47:40
  well three thirty eight. Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
• 47:49
  Three thirty nine. Love your neighbor, yet, don't pull down your
• 47:52
  hedge three forty Lying rides upon Death's back three forty one. Mad kings and
• 48:04
  mad bulls are not to be held by treaties and packthread three forty two.
• 48:10
  Many a man's own tongue gives evidence against his understanding three forty three. Many
• 48:17
  A man would have been worse if his estate had been better three forty four.
• 48:24
  Many a meal is lost for want of meat three forty five. Many
• 48:31
  complain of their memory, few of their judgment three forty six. Many dishes,
• 48:38
  many diseases three forty seven. Many estates are spent in the getting three
• 48:46
  forty eight. Many foxes grow gray, but few grow good. Three forty
• 48:53
  nine. Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it three fifty Many medicines,
• 49:01
  few cures. Three fifty one. Many princes sin with David, but
• 49:08
  few repent with him. Three fifty two. Many would live by their wits,
• 49:15
  but break for want of stock. Three fifty three. Marry above thy
• 49:21
  match, and doubt get a master. Three fifty four. Marry your son
• 49:27
  when you will, but your daughter when you can. Three fifty five.
• 49:32
  Mary's mouth costs her nothing, for she never opens it, but at other's
• 49:37
  expense. Three fifty six. Meanness is the parent of insolence. Three fifty
• 49:46
  seven. Men and melons are hard to know. Three fifty eight. Men
• 49:53
  differ daily about things which are subject to sense. Is it likely then they
• 49:58
  should agree about things in visit? Three fifty nine. Men meet mountains never
• 50:07
  three sixty Men often mistake themselves, seldom forget themselves three sixty one. Men
• 50:15
  take more pains to mask than men three sixty two. Money and good manners
• 50:22
  make the gentlemen three sixty three. Money and man a mutual friendship. Show
• 50:30
  Man makes false money, money makes man so three sixty four. Most fools
• 50:37
  think they are only ignorant three sixty five. Most of the learning in use
• 50:44
  is of no great use three sixty six. Most people return small favors,
• 50:50
  acknowledge middling ones, and repay great ones with ingratitude three sixty seven. Much
• 50:58
  virtue in herbs, little in men. Three sixty eight. Necessity has no
• 51:05
  law. I know some attorneys of the same. Three sixty nine. Necessity
• 51:12
  has no law, why because it ti is not to be had without money
• 51:19
  three seventy Necessity never made a good bargain. Three seventy one. Ne'er take
• 51:27
  a wife till thou hast a house and a fire to put her in three
• 51:31
  seventy two. Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them three seventy three. Neglect
• 51:40
  mending a small fault, and twill soon be a great one. Three seventy
• 51:45
  four. Neither praise nor dispraise till seven Christmases be over three seventy five.
• 51:53
  Never entreat a servant to dwell with thee three seventy six. Never praise your
• 52:00
  sider, horse or bedfellow three seventy seven. Never spare the parson's wine nor
• 52:07
  the baker's pudding three seventy eight. Nice eagers seldom meet with a good dinner
• 52:15
  three seventy nine. Nick's passions grow fat and hearty. His understanding looks consumptive
• 52:23
  three eighty nine. Men and ten are suicides three eighty one. No gains
• 52:30
  without pains three eighty two. No man air was glorious, who was not
• 52:37
  laborious three eighty three. None are deceived, but they that confide three eighty
• 52:45
  four. None know the unfortunate, and the fortunate do not know themselves three
• 52:52
  eighty five. None preaches better than the aunt, and she says nothing eighty
• 53:00
  six. No resolution repenting hereafter can be sincere three eighty seven, nor I
• 53:08
  in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret
• 53:12
  of another three eighty eight. Nothing but money is sweeter than honey three eighty
• 53:20
  nine. Nothing dries sooner than a tear three ninety Nothing humbler than ambition when
• 53:28
  it is about to climb three ninety one. Nothing more like a fool than
• 53:34
  a drunken man three ninety two. Nothing so popular as goodness three ninety three.
• 53:43
  Now I've a sheep and a cow, everybody bids me good morrow three
• 53:47
  ninety four. No wood without bark three ninety five. No workmen without tools,
• 53:55
  nor lawyer without fools can live by their rules three ninety six. Observe
• 54:02
  all men thyself most three ninety seven. Observe old vellum. He praises former
• 54:09
  times as if he'd a mind to sell them three ninety eight. Of learned
• 54:15
  fools I have seen ten times ten of unlearned wise men, I have seen
• 54:21
  a hundred three ninety nine, Oh, lazy bones, dost thou think God
• 54:28
  would have given thee arms and legs if he had not designed? Thou shouldst
• 54:31
  use them? And of section three aphorisms four hundred through four ninety nine four
• 54:42
  hundred Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones. The difference is
• 54:47
  only in the price. Four O one old, young and old long four
• 54:55
  O two One good husband is worth two good wives. For the scarcer things
• 55:01
  are, the more they are valued. Four O three. One may be
• 55:07
  more cunning than another, but not more cunning than everybody else four O four.
• 55:13
  One men's fault is worth two find faults, but one find fault is
• 55:17
  better than two make faults. Four O five. One today is worth two
• 55:23
  tomorrows. Four O six. Onions can make even airs and widows weep.
• 55:32
  Four O seven. Pain wastes the body, pleasures the understanding four O eight.
• 55:39
  Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. Four O nine. Patience in
• 55:46
  market is worth pounds in a year four ten. Pay what you owe and
• 55:52
  you'll know what's your own four eleven. Philosophy, as well as foppery,
• 55:59
  are often changes fashion four twelve. Plow deep while sluggard's sleep four thirteen.
• 56:08
  Polio, who values nothing that's within, buys books as men hunt beavers for
• 56:15
  their skin. Four fourteen. Poor Dick eats like a well man and drinks
• 56:22
  like a sick four fifteen Poor Plain dealing dead without issue. Four sixteen.
• 56:32
  Poverty, poetry and new titles of honor make men ridiculous. Four seventeen.
• 56:40
  Poverty wants some things, luxury, many things, avarice all things for eighteen.
• 56:49
  Praise to the undeserving is severe satire four nineteen. Pray don't burn my
• 56:57
  house to roast your eggs four twenty. Prayers and provender hinder no journey four
• 57:07
  twenty one. Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running for
• 57:13
  twenty two. Pretty and witty will wound if they hitch ye four twenty three.
• 57:21
  Pride and the gout are seldom cured throughout four twenty four. Pride breakfasted
• 57:29
  with plenty, dined with poverty, supped with infamy four twenty five. Pride
• 57:37
  dines upon vanity, septs on contempt four twenty six. Pride is as loud
• 57:45
  a beggar, as want and a great deal more saucy four twenty seven.
• 57:52
  Pride gets into the coach and shame mounts behind four twenty eight. Proclaim not
• 58:00
  all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou
• 58:04
  canst four twenty nine. Prodigality of time produces poverty of mind as well as
• 58:13
  of estate. Four thirty. Promises may get thee friends, but non performance
• 58:21
  will turn them into enemies. Four thirty one. Proud modern learning despises the
• 58:29
  ancient schoolmen are now laughed at by schoolboys four thirty two. Quarrels never could
• 58:37
  last long if on one side only lay the wrong four thirty three. Rather
• 58:45
  go to bed supperless than run in debt for a breakfast four thirty four.
• 58:51
  Reading makes a full man, meditation, a profound man, discourse a clear
• 58:58
  man. Four thirty five. Read much, but not many books four thirty
• 59:07
  six. Retirement does not always secure virtue. Lot was upright in the city,
• 59:14
  wicked in the mountain four thirty seven. Rob not for burnt offerings.
• 59:22
  Four thirty eight. Rob not God nor the poor lest thou ruin thyself.
• 59:29
  The eagles snatched a coal from the altar, but it fired her nest four
• 59:35
  thirty nine. Samson, with his strong body, had a weak head,
• 59:40
  or he would not have laid in a harlot's lap four forty Saying and doing
• 59:46
  have quarreled and parted four forty one. Search others for their virtues, thyself
• 59:54
  for thy vices four forty two. Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor
• 1:00:01
  liberty to purchase power. Four forty three. Silence is not always a sign
• 1:00:08
  of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly four forty four.
• 1:00:15
  Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire four forty five. Since thou art
• 1:00:22
  not sure of a minute throw not away an hour four forty six. Singularity
• 1:00:30
  in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion
• 1:00:37
  four forty seven. Sleep without supping, and you'll rise without owing for it
• 1:00:44
  four forty eight. Sloth and silence are a fool's virtues four forty nine.
• 1:00:52
  Sloth like rust consumes faster than labor wares. The used key is always bright
• 1:01:00
  four fifty snowy winter a plentiful harvest four fifty one. Some are justly laughed
• 1:01:08
  at for keeping their money foolishly, others for spending it idly. He is
• 1:01:14
  the greatest fool that lays it out in a purchase of repentance four fifty two.
• 1:01:22
  Some are weather wise, some are otherwise four fifty three. Some make
• 1:01:28
  conscience of wearing a hat in the church, who make none of robbing the
• 1:01:31
  altar four fifty four. Sorrow is good for nothing but sin four fifty five.
• 1:01:40
  Spare and have is better than spend and grave four fifty six. Speak
• 1:01:47
  and speed. The closed mouth catches no flies four fifty seven. Speak little,
• 1:01:55
  do much four fifty eight. Speak with contempt of none. From slave
• 1:02:01
  to king, the meanest bee hath and will use a sting four fifty nine.
• 1:02:09
  Strange that a man who has wit enough to write a satire should have
• 1:02:14
  folly enough to publish it. For sixty strange that he who lives by shifts
• 1:02:21
  can seldom shift himself. For sixty one. Strive to be the greatest man
• 1:02:27
  in your country, and you may be disappointed. Strive to be the best,
• 1:02:30
  and you may succeed. He may well win the race that runs by
• 1:02:35
  himself. Four sixty two. Success has ruined many a man. For sixty
• 1:02:43
  three. Sudden power is apt to be insolvent. Sudden liberty, saucy that
• 1:02:50
  behaves best, which has grown gradually. For sixty four. Suspicion may be
• 1:02:58
  no fault, but showing it may be a great one. Four sixty five.
• 1:03:02
  Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water. Four sixty six.
• 1:03:09
  Take courage. Mortal death can't banish thee out of the universe. Four
• 1:03:15
  sixty seven. Take heed of the vinegar of sweet wine and the anger of
• 1:03:21
  good nature. For sixty eight, take this remark from Richard poor and lame.
• 1:03:28
  Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. For sixty nine. Talking
• 1:03:35
  against religion is unchaining a tiger. The beast let loose, may worry his
• 1:03:39
  deliverer. Four seventy Tart words make no friends. A spoonful of honey will
• 1:03:47
  catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. Four seventy one. Teach your
• 1:03:53
  child to hold his tongue. He'll learn fast enough to speak. For seventy
• 1:04:00
  two. Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old. You'll
• 1:04:04
  get no money of one nor kindness of t'other. For seventy three. Tell
• 1:04:11
  me my faults, and mend your own. For seventy four. The absent
• 1:04:16
  are never without fault, nor the presence without excuse. Four seventy five.
• 1:04:24
  The ancients tell us what is best, but we must learn of the moderns
• 1:04:28
  what is fittest. For seventy six. The bell calls others to church,
• 1:04:33
  but itself never minds the sermon. For seventy seven. The bird that sits
• 1:04:40
  is easily shot. For seventy eight. The brave and the wise can both
• 1:04:46
  pity and excuse when cowards and fools show no mercy. For seventy nine.
• 1:04:54
  The busy man has few idle visitors to the boiling pot. The flies come
• 1:04:59
  not four eighty. The cat in gloves catches no mice for eighty one.
• 1:05:08
  The creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
• 1:05:15
  For eighty two. The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets
• 1:05:19
  him alone. Four ninety three. The devil sweetens poison with honey for eighty
• 1:05:28
  four. The discontented man finds no easy chair for eighty five. The doors
• 1:05:35
  of wisdom are never shut for eighty six. The end of passion is the
• 1:05:41
  beginning of repentance. For eighty seven. The excellency of hogs is fatness of
• 1:05:48
  men virtue for eighty eight. The eye of a master will do more work
• 1:05:56
  than his hand four eighty nine. The family of fools is ancient four ninety
• 1:06:04
  The favor of the great is no inheritance four ninety one. The generous mind
• 1:06:11
  least regards money, and yet most feels the want of it four ninety two.
• 1:06:17
  The golden age never was the present age four ninety three. The good
• 1:06:24
  pay master is lord of another man's purse four ninety four. The good or
• 1:06:30
  ill hap of a good or ill life is the good or ill choice of
• 1:06:33
  a good or ill wife four ninety five. The heart of the fool is
• 1:06:41
  in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart
• 1:06:45
  four ninety six. The heathens, when they died, went to bed without
• 1:06:49
  a candle for ninety seven. The honest man takes pains and then enjoys pleasures.
• 1:06:57
  The knave takes pleasures and then suffers pains four ninety eight. The honey
• 1:07:02
  is sweet, but the bee has a sting four ninety nine. The horse
• 1:07:08
  thinks one thing, and he that sattles him another end of Section four Aphorisms
• 1:07:16
  five hundred through five ninety nine. Five hundred. The idle man is the
• 1:07:24
  devil's hireling, whose livery is rags, whose diet and wages are famine and
• 1:07:29
  diseases. Five O one. The king's cheese is half wasted in pairings,
• 1:07:35
  but no matter tis made of the people's milk. Five O two. The
• 1:07:42
  learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still tis
• 1:07:46
  nonsense. Five O three. The magistrate should obey the laws, the people
• 1:07:53
  should obey the magistrate. Five O four. The master's eye will do more
• 1:08:00
  work than both his hands five o five. The miser's cheese is holsmest five
• 1:08:08
  o six. The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine five
• 1:08:15
  o seven. The muses love the morning five o eight. The nearest way
• 1:08:20
  to come to glory is to do that for conscience, which we do for
• 1:08:25
  glory five o nine. The noblest question in the world is what good may
• 1:08:30
  I do in it? Five ten. The old man has given all to
• 1:08:36
  his son, O fool to undress thyself before thou art going to bed five
• 1:08:44
  eleven. The painful preacher, like a candle bright, consumes himself in giving
• 1:08:49
  others light five twelve. The poor have little, beggars none, the rich
• 1:08:57
  too much enough not one. Five thirteen. The poor man must walk to
• 1:09:02
  get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his
• 1:09:06
  meat. Five fourteen. The prodigal generally does more injustice than the covetous five
• 1:09:15
  fifteen. The proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman gold,
• 1:09:20
  the proof of man a woman five sixteen. The proud hate pride in others
• 1:09:30
  five seventeen. There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies five eighteen.
• 1:09:36
  There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit five nineteen. There
• 1:09:44
  are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons five twenty there are three faithful friends,
• 1:09:53
  an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Five twenty one.
• 1:09:59
  There are are three things extremely hard steal a diamond into no one's self
• 1:10:06
  five twenty two. There is neither honor nor gain got in dealing with the
• 1:10:11
  villain. Five twenty three. There is no little enemy five twenty four.
• 1:10:19
  There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good. Five
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  twenty five. There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
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  Five twenty six. There's a time to wink as well as to see
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  five twenty seven. There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
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  Five twenty eight. There is more old drunkards than old doctors. Five twenty
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  nine. There is none deceived but he that trusts. Five thirty There is
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  small revenge in words, but words may be greatly revenged. Five thirty one.
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  There was never a good knife made of bad steel. Five thirty two.
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  They who have nothing to trouble them will be troubled at nothing. Five
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  thirty three. The rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.
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  Five thirty four. The rotten apple spoils his companion five thirty five. The
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  royal crown cures not the headache five thirty six. The same man cannot be
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  both friend and flatterer five thirty seven. The sleeping fox catches no poultry up
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  up five thirty eight. The second vice is lying, the first is running
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  into debt. Five thirty nine. The sting of the reproach is the truth
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  of it. Five forty The sun never repents of the good he does,
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  nor does he ever demand a recompense five forty one. The things which hurt
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  instruct five forty two. The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth five
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  forty three. The tongue offends, and the ears get the cofing five forty
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  four. The too obliging temper is ever more disobliging itself five forty five.
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  The way to be safe is never to be secure. Five forty six.
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  The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. The
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  morning daylight appears plainer when you put out your candle five forty seven. The
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  wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.
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  Five forty eight. The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise five
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  forty nine. The wolf sheds his coat once a year, his disposition never
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  five fifty Think of three things. Whence you came where you are going,
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  and to whom you must account five fifty one. First after dessert, not
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  reward. Five fifty two. Though modesty is a virtue, bashfulness is a
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  vice. Five fifty three. Those that have much business must have much pardon.
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  Five fifty four. Those who are feared are hated five fifty five.
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  Those who, in quarrels interpose must often wipe a bloody nose five fifty six.
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  Though the mastiff be gentle, yet bite him not by the lip.
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  Five fifty seven. Thou canst not joke an enemy into a friend, but
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  thou mayst a friend into an enemy. Five fifty eight. Three good meals
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  a day is bad living five fifty nine. Three may keep a secret if
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  two of them are dead. Five sixty three things are men most likely to
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  be cheated in a horse, a whig, and a wife. Five sixty
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  one. Tim and his hand saw are good in their place, though not
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  fit for preaching or shaving a face. Five sixty two. Time enough always
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  proves little enough. Five sixty three. Time is an herb that cures all
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  diseases. Five sixty four. Tim was so learned that he could name a
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  in nine languages, so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
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  Five sixty five tis against some men's principles to pay interest, and seems against
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  others interests to pay the principle. Five sixty six tis a laudable ambition that
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  aims at being better than his neighbors. Five sixty seven.'tis a shame
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  that your family is an honor to you. You ought to be an honor
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  to your family. Five sixty eight.'tis a strange force that has no
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  rotten wood in it, and a strange kindred that all are good in it.
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  Five sixty nine.'tis better leave for an enemy at one's death than
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  beg of a friend in one's life. Five seventy'tis easier to build two
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  chimneys than maintain one in fuel. Five seventy one.'tis easier to prevent
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  bad habits than to break them. Five seventy two tis easy to see,
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  hard to foresee. Five seventy three tis easier to suppress the first desire than
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  to satisfy all that follow it. Five seventy four tis great confidence in a
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  friend. To tell him your faults greater to tell him his. Five seventy
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  five tis hard, but glorious to be poor and honest. Five seventy six
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  tis less discredit to abridge petty charges than to stoop to petty gettings. Five
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  seventy seven.'tis not a holiday that's not kept holy. Five seventy eight
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  tis a well spent penny that saves a groat five seventy nine. To bear
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  other people's afflictions, everyone has courage enough, and to spare five eighty To
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  be intimate with a foolish friend is like going to bed with a razor.
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  Five eighty one. To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
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  To be proud of virtue is to poison yourself with the antidote. Five
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  eighty two. Today is yesterday's pupil. Five eighty three. To err is
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  human. To repent divine, to persist devilish five eighty four. To lengthen
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  thy life lessen thy meals. Five eighty five. Tomorrow every fault is to
• 1:17:40
  be amended, but that tomorrow never comes. Five eighty six. Tom veins
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  your pains, they all will fail. Ne'er was good arrow made of a
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  sow's tail five eighty seven. Tongue double brings trouble. Eight Too much plenty
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  makes mouth dainty five eighty nine. To whom thy secret thou dost tell to
• 1:18:08
  him thy freedom thou dost sell. Five ninety Tricks and treachery are the practice
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  of fools that have not enough wit to be honest. Five ninety one.
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  Trouble springs from idleness, toil from ease five ninety two. Trust thyself and
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  another shall not betray thee five ninety three. Two dry sticks will burn a
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  green one five ninety four. Up sluggard and waste not. Life in the
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  grave will be sleeping enough. Five ninety five. Vainglory flowereth, but beareth
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  no fruit. Five ninety six. Vanity back bites more than malice. Five
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  ninety seven. Bis knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask. Five
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  ninety eight. Virtue and a trade are a child's best portion. Five ninety
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  nine. Virtue and happiness are a mother and daughter. End of section five
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  aphorisms six hundred through six seventy six hundred. Virtue may not always make a
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  face handsome, but vice will certainly make it ugly. Six oh one Visits
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  should be short, like a winter's day. Lest you're too troublesome, hasten
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  away. Six o two. Visit your aunt, but not every day,
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  and call it your brothers, but not every night. Six so three.
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  Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. Six o four.
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  Wars bring scars six o five. We are not so sensible of the
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  greatest health as of the least sickness six oh six. Wealth is not his
• 1:20:09
  that has it, but his that enjoys it. Six oh seven. Weighty
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  questions ask for deliberate answers six o eight. Welcome mischief if thou comest alone.
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  Six o nine. Well done is better than well said. Six ten.
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  Well done is twice done. Six eleven. We may give advice,
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  but we cannot give conduct. Six twelve. What is a butterfly? At
• 1:20:42
  best? He's but a caterpillar dressed the gaudy fops his picture just six thirteen.
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  What's given shines, what's received is rusty six fourteen. What signifies knowing
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  the names if you know not the nature of the things six fifteen. What
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  signifies your patience if you can't find it when you want it? Six sixteen.
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  What's proper is becoming See the blacksmith with his white silk apron six seventeen.
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  What she would seem to be be really six eighteen. When a friend
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  deals with a friend, let the bargain be clear and well penned, that
• 1:21:28
  they may be continue friends to the end. Six nineteen. When befriended,
• 1:21:34
  remember it. When you befriend, forget it. Six twenty. When death
• 1:21:41
  puts out your flame, the snuff will tell if we were wax or tallow
• 1:21:45
  by the smell. Six twenty one. When knaves betray each other, one
• 1:21:51
  can scarce be blamed or the other pitied. Six twenty two. When knaves
• 1:21:58
  fall out, honest men and get their goods. When priests dispute, we
• 1:22:01
  come at the truth. Six twenty three. When out of favor, none
• 1:22:08
  know thee when in thou dost not know thyself? Six twenty four. When
• 1:22:15
  prosperity was well mounted, she let go the bridle and soon came tumbling out
• 1:22:19
  of the saddle. Six twenty five. When reason preaches, if you won't
• 1:22:26
  hear her, she'll box your ears. Six twenty six. When there is
• 1:22:30
  more malice shown than matter on the writer falls the satire. Six twenty seven.
• 1:22:39
  When the wells dry, We know the worth of water six twenty eight.
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  When the wine enters, out goes the truth. Six twenty nine.
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  When tis fair, be sure, take your coat with you six thirty.
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  When you're good to others, you are best to yourself. Six thirty one.
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  When you speak to a man, look on his eyes, when he
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  speaks to thee, look on his mouth. Six thirty two. When you
• 1:23:08
  taste honey, remember Gaul. Six thirty three. Where bread is wanting,
• 1:23:15
  all's to be sold. Six thirty four. Where good laws are much,
• 1:23:20
  people flock thither six thirty five. Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
• 1:23:28
  Six thirty six. Where there's no law, there's no bread. Six
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  thirty seven. Where there is hunger, law is not regarded, And where
• 1:23:39
  law is not regarded, there will be hunger. Six thirty eight. Where
• 1:23:45
  there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Six thirty
• 1:23:50
  nine. Where yet was ever found the mother who'd change her baby for another
• 1:23:58
  six forty Why will wear but narrow will tear? Six forty one. Wink
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  at small faults, remember thou hast great ones six forty two. Wish not
• 1:24:12
  so much to live long as to live well six forty three. Without justice
• 1:24:18
  courage is weak six forty four. With the old almanac and the old year,
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  leave thy old vice, though, ever so dear six forty five.
• 1:24:31
  Who dainties love shall beggars prove six forty six. Who has deceived thee so
• 1:24:40
  oft as thyself? Six forty seven. Who is powerful? He that governs
• 1:24:46
  his passions? Six forty eight? Who is rich? He that is content?
• 1:24:54
  Six forty nine. Who is rich he that rejoices in his portion?
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  Six fifty Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits? Six
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  fifty one? Who is wise? He that learns from every one? Six
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  fifty two, who judges best of a man? His enemies are himself six
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  fifty three. Who knows a fool must know his brother, for one will
• 1:25:23
  recommend another six fifty four. Willows are weak, but they bind the faggot
• 1:25:31
  six fifty five. Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no
• 1:25:35
  good six fifty six. Women and wine, game and deceit make the wealth
• 1:25:42
  small and the wants great. Six fifty seven. Words may show a man's
• 1:25:47
  wit, but actions his meaning. Six fifty eight would you live with ease?
• 1:25:55
  Do what you ought, not what you please? Six fifty nine would
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  you persuade, speak of interests, not of reason. Six sixty Right injuries
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  in dust, benefits in marble six sixty one. Right with the learned,
• 1:26:15
  pronounce with the vulgar six sixty two. Why does the blind man's wife paint
• 1:26:20
  herself? Six sixty three. You can bear your own faults, and why
• 1:26:28
  not a fault in your wife? Six sixty four. You may be too
• 1:26:32
  cunning for one, but not for all. Six sixty five. You may
• 1:26:39
  delay, but time will not. Six sixty six. You may give a
• 1:26:44
  man in office, but you cannot give him discretion six sixty seven. You
• 1:26:49
  may talk too much on the best subjects. Six sixty eight. You may
• 1:26:56
  sometimes be much in the wrong in owning your being in the right six sixty
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  nine. Youth is pert and positive, age modest and doubting, So ears
• 1:27:09
  of corn, when young and light stand, bolt upright, but hang their
• 1:27:13
  heads when weighty, full, and ripe. Six seventy. You will be
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  careful, if you are wise, how you touch men's religion, or credit,
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  or eyes. End of section six