"Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one."

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"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."

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"If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it."

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"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care."

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"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children."

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"A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."

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"There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures."

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"The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune."

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"Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants."

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"To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom."

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