Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

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To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

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How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his precepts O 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

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He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

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