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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.