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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.
He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.
Idleness ruins the constitution.
Idleness ruins the constitution.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his
duty to avoid.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his
duty to avoid.
