I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
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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
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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
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Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.
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Each year, one vicious habit rooted in time ought to make the worst man good.
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