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The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool
Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

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