Benjamin Franklin 800
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A A clear conscience fears no accusation. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. A cure for poetry, seven wealthy towns contend for Homer, dead, thro' which the living Homer begged his bread. A divided family can no more s tand than a divided Commonwealth. A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort. A flatterer never seems absurd: the flattered always take his word. A friend in need is a friend indeed. A full belly is the mother of all evil. A good example is the best sermon. A good lawyer makes a bad neighbour. A good man is seldom uneasy, an ill one never easy. A good man passes by an offence, and a noble spirit scorns revenge. A good wife and health, is a man's best wealth. A great many employ the first of their years to make their last miserable. A large train makes a light purse. A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. A lie stands on one leg, truth on two. A life of leisure and a life of la ziness are two different things. A light purse is a heavy curse. A little house well filled, a little field well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches. A little well-gotten will do us more good, than lordships and sceptres by rapine s and blood. A man had better be poisoned in his blood than in his principles. A man is never so ridiculous by those qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have. A man may be a good adviser, though an ill solicitor. A man of knowledge, like a rich s oil, feeds if not a world of corn, a world of weeds. A man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place. A man without secrecy is an open letter for everyone to read. A mob's a monster; heads enough, but no brains. A modern wit is one of David's fools. A new truth is a truth, an old err or is an error, though clodpate 2 won't allow either. A penny saved is two pence clear, a pin a day is a groat 3 a year.
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