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Learning makes a man fit company for himself.Best?
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.Best?
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Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.Best?
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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.Best?
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Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.Best?
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If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.Best?
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A good garden may have some weeds.Best?
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He that fears your presence will hate you absence.Best?
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A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.Best?
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Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.Best?
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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.Best?
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.Best?
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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.Best?
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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.Best?
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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.Best?
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Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.Best?
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If thou art a master, be sometimes blind, if a servant, sometimes deaf.Best?
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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.Best?
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One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.Best?
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.Best?
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Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.Best?
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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.Best?
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Enquire not what boils in another's pot.Best?
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If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.Best?
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