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• ‟ The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

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• ‟ Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

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• ‟ The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

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• ‟ There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

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• ‟ Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

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