When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
From Benjamin Franklin
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Applause waits on success.
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