Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

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No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

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Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process.

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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

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