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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

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It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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Abuse Impatience Listening Man Natural Pleasure Praise
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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Crack Fools Known Sound Wisdom
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
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Employment Engagement Follow Impossible Man Thinking
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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Friendship Himself Man Willing
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
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Believe Consistency Easy Expectation State
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
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Benefit Forget Man Remember
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Action Greatness Man Success Tendency

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

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