Benjamin Franklin - Poor Richard's Almanack (1759)

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Keep the eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards.

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In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

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Dost thou love Life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

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The noblest question in the world is What Good may I do in it?

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The praise you take, altho' it be your due,
Will be suspected if it come from you.

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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

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Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

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Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason.

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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Dear in the sense of expensive

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Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

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He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

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A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.

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Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.

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Most people return small favors, acknowledge middling ones, and repay great ones with ingratitude.

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