Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.
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He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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