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It is easier to pull down than to build up.

Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Revenge is a dish that tastes better cold.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

A bad workman always blames his tools.

Truth fears no trial. -Proverb.

Victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.

Peace begets prosperity; Prosperity begets pride; Pride begets prejudice; Prejudice begets war; War begets poverty.

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.

A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

Many hands make light work.

The game is not worth the candle.