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1 Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
2 Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
3 Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
4 A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
5 Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
6 He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
7 Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.
8 Rather go to bed with our dinner than to rise in debt.
9 Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
10 In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
11 How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
12 He that rises late must trot all day.
13 Fatigue is the best pillow.
14 Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
15 Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
16 A penny saved is a penny earned.
17 He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
18 Remember that credit is money.
19 The doors of wisdom are never shut.
20 Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
21 Time is money.
22 Wars are not paid for in wartime, that bill comes later.
23 Where liberty is, there is my country.
24 When in doubt, don’t.
25 Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
26 There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
27 The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
28 The first mistake in public business is going into it.
29 If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
30 He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
31 Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
32 Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
33 Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
34 Creditors have better memories than debtors.
35 By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
36 Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
37 A small leak can sink a great ship.
38 Applause waits on success.
39 Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expenses is constant and certain; and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
40 Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed if it, is.