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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to…
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However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.
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Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider…
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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is…
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The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor…
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
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From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in…
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The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as…
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