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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Washington

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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Alone Bad Company Character Friendship One Liner
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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Borrow Interest One Liner Trouble Worry
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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Fools Happiness Man One Liner Sensible Woman
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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Alone Associate Bad Company Esteem Good Men Quality Reputation Self Love
Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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Absence Evil One Liner Speak
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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God Hands Honesty Repair Standard
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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Age One Liner Perseverance Spirit Wonder
Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Citizen Decision Requirement Understand
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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Deficiency Liberty Patriotism Rely Supply War
The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Nation Peace Victim

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