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The man who looks after his own work has plenty to do to keep everything right.
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The greatest pleasure in life lies in doing that which people say we cannot do.
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If you would grow poor without knowing it, put your helpers to work and go to sleep
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Never marry an heiress, unless her father has been hanged. She is sure to be proud.
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She's for knitting and sewing and scraping potatoes, and you should be glad to catch the like.
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When a man wants a wife, he wants but a wife; But when he has got a wife, he wants a great deal.
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The weaknesses of old age are no fit cause for laughter, since they must be our own portion at the end.
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Ten thousand of the greatest faults in our neighbours is of less consequence than the smallest of our own.
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Where there are women there is talk, where there are geese there is keck, where there are tailors there are crabs, where there are carpenters, there are chips.
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