In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

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Oppression makes a poor country.

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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

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