How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his precepts O 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments
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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.Benjamin Franklin
If you would persuade, speak of interest, not reason.
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In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and no-body pities their Case.
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Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
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The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt
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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
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