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- If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will…
- A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
- After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.
- The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies…
- Marry above thy match and you will get a master.
- Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!
- If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.
- If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed,…
- There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's…
- We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our…
- If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today
- If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other…
- To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual…
- Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
- I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not…
- If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
- Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be…
- If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.
- A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
- Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the…
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