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No where can we die happier than where we have lived happily.

Reproaches in misfortune are more intolerable than misfortune itself.

Hatred of evil should constrain you to right, not fear.

Death ever uncertain gets the start of such as are always beginning to live.

A service is well rendered when the receiver can remember it.

It is very well to imitate our ancestors, if they led in the right way.

The crime of the parent should never be a prejudice to the son.

Money is a servant if you know how to use it; if not, it is a master.

When we speak evil of others, we generally condemn ourselves.

To apply a common fund to our individual uses is the beginning of discord.

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

The later in life evil courses are begun, the more disgraceful they are.

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