Ridicule is the best test of truth.

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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

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Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

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Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.

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The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.

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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.

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I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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