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(31 votes)   He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

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(31 votes)   Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

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(30 votes)   A place for everything, everything in its place.

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(30 votes)   For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

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(30 votes)   If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

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(30 votes)   It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

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(30 votes)   The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

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(29 votes)   A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

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(29 votes)   Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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(29 votes)   I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

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(29 votes)   Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

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(28 votes)   Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

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(28 votes)   Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

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(27 votes)   A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

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(27 votes)   Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.

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