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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. - [Pride] Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. - [Pride] Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. - [Debt] Reckless haste makes poor speed. - [Rashness] Reckless youth makes rueful age. - [Youth] Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - [Right] Remember that credit is money. - [Credit] Remember this: they that will not be counselled cannot be helped. If you do not hear Reason, she will rap your knuckles. - [Advice] Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind. - [Revelation] Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices. - [Widows] Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. - [Savages] Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed. - [Vanity] Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices. - [Virtue] Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. - [Sin] Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others? - [Tongue] Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. - [Conformity] Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. - [Idleness] Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. - [Laziness] Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners. - [Drunkenness] Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. - [Speech] Stand firm, don't flutter! - [Fickleness] Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue. - [Punctuality] Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves. - [Proverbs] Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. - [Words] Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - [Learning] Displaying page 7 of 11 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 10 11
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