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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

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The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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States, as great engines, move slowly.

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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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Riches are for spending.

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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