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A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken.

Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.

He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.

It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.

It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.

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He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.

Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.

Memory like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller.