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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
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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.
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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares.
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He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
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Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
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I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
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I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
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