Who has deceiv'd thee so off as thy self?

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The family of Fools is ancient.

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A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.

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Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

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A good lawyer, a bad neighbour.

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Do me the favour to deny me at once.

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Avarice and happiness never saw each other; how then should they become acquainted?

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

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Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

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What you would seem to be, be really.

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How many observe Christ's Birthday; How few his Precepts! O, 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.

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Sloth (like Rust) consumes faster than Labour wears: the used Key is always bright.

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In a discreet man's mouth a publick thing is private.

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III Customs & bad Advice are seldom forgotten.

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How few there are who have courage enough to own their Faults, or resolution enough to mend them!

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He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.

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There are no ugly loves, nor handsome prisons.

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If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

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To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

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Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him.

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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

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'Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

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Hear Reason, or she'll make you feel her.

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The Way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest.

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Drive thy Business;--let not that drive thee.

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou can'st.

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Fear to do ill, and you need fear nought else.

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A man of knowledge like a rich soil, feeds/if not a world of corn, a world of weeds.

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Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.