Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

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Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

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Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

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Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

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Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

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He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

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Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

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Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

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