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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.[][]
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.[][]
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness.[][]
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.[][]
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.[][]
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?[][]
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.[][]
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.[][]
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.[][]
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.[][]
One today is worth two tomorrows.[][]
[I am] lord of myself, accountable to none. [][]
Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.[][]
Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.[][]
Beauty and folly are old companions.[][]
Well done is better than well said. [][]
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. [][]
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