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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
Well done is better than well said.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.
And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.
Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.
In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.
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