Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

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If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

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But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin in letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

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