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 | "If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were
laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there
might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more
happiness." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth
accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,? A
breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their
country"s pride, When once destroy"d, can never be supplied." | |
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Found in the topic Prosperity.
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| "There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he
knockes you down with the butt end of it." | |
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Found in the topic Gun.
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| "Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler
virtues." | |
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Found in the topic Modesty.
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| "How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or
kings can cause or cure." | |
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Found in the topic Cause.
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| "Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry." | |
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Found in the topic Fortune.
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| "I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy
surface, but such qualities as would wear well." | |
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Found in the topic Marriage.
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| "The hours we pass with happy prospects in view Are more pleasing
than those crowded with fruition." | |
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Found in the topic Prospects.
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| "Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law." | |
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Found in the topic Law.
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| "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an
abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."" | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "His conduct still right, with his argument wrong." | |
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Found in the topic Conduct.
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| "Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough
to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse." | |
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Found in the topic Conscience.
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| "Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks
where commerce long prevails." | |
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Found in the topic Business.
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| "You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your
lips." | |
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Found in the topic Example.
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| "Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising
every time we fall." | |
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Found in the topic Factory.
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| "Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never
wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise." | |
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Found in the topic Praise.
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| "Handsome is that handsome does." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And
even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise." | |
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Found in the topic Expectation.
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| "Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement." | |
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Found in the topic Industry.
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| "And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both
mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree." | |
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Found in the topic Dog.
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