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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
[ Fashion ]
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
[ Manners ]
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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
[ Manners ]
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
[ Complaining ]
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Nothing preaches better than the act.
[ Example ]
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Well done, is better than well said.
[ Example ]
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
[ Debt ]
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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
[ Persuasion ]
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
[ Persuasion ]
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
[ Self Knowledge ]
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
[ Women ]
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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
[ Contentment ]
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
[ Contentment ]
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God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
[ Doctors ]
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
[ Relationships ]
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
[ Economy ]
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He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
[ Ignorance ]
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
[ Ignorance ]
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
[ Ignorance ]
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
[ Conversation ]
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