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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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Self
One today is worth two tomorrows.
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Today
Worth
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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Nation
Trade
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
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Men
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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Wife
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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Today
Tomorrow
Never confuse motion with action.
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Action
Necessity never made a good bargain.
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Bargain
Necessity
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
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Man
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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Faith
Eye
Reason
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
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Money
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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Happiness
Constitution
Pursuit
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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Injustice
Law
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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Business
Mistake
First
Public