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"It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him."
"Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."
"It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket."
"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all."
"A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse."
"An honest man's word is as good as his bond."
"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all."
"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."
"What a man has, so much he is sure of."
"Time ripens all things. No man is born wise."
"He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie."
"Let every man look before he leaps."
"Let every man mind his own business."
"Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind."
"Little said is soonest mended."
"Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves."
"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."
"There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters."
"Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth."
"Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones."
"That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."
"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."