If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
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A maid who laughs is half taken.
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
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You get what you pay for.
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When two agree in their desire, One sparke will set them both on fire.
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Anger is shortlived in a good man.
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