If you do what you should not, you must hear what you would not.
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He that Whines for Glass without G, take away L and that's he.
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A quarrelsome Man has no good Neighbours.
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Buy what thou hast no need of, and e'er long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
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Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bond-age than too much liberty, (or liber-tinism).
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Read much, but not too many books.
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You may be more happy than princes, if you will be more virtuous.
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
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God helps them that help themselves.
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Fly pleasures, and they'll follow you.
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Mary's mouth costs her nothing, for she never opens it but at others' expence.
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Dorothy would with John be married; Dorothy's wise, I trow: But John by no means Dorothy will wed; John's the wiser of the two.
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Don't throw Stones at your Neighbours', if your own Windows are Glass.
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The excellency of hogs is—fatness; of men—virtue.
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Why does the blind man's wife paint herself?
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He that sells upon trust, loses many friends, and always wants money.
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Lovers, travelers, and poets, will give money to be heard.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Two or three frolicks abroad in sweet May, Two or three civil things said by the way, Two or three languishes, two or three sighs, Two or three bless me's and let me die's! Two or three squeezes, and two or three towzes, With two or three hundred pound spent at their houses, Can never fail cuckolding two or three spouses.
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Forewarn'd, forearm'd.
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Many a Man thinks he is buying Pleasure, when he is really selling himself a Slave to it.
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‘Tis a Shame that your Family is an Honour to you! You ought to be an Honour to your Family.
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Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd, and never well mended.
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Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.
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We must give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct.
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Since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an Hour.
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