To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.William Penn
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
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Governments, like docks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined also. Therefore governments depend upon men rather then men upon governments.
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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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