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He that falls in love with himself, will have no Rivals.

Richard Saunders

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Franklin, Benjamin [Published as Richard Saunders]. "February 1739." Poor Richard, 1739. An Almanack for the Year of Christ 1739. Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin, 1738.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard 1739." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1738.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

Voltaire

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Voltaire. "Deuxieme Discours: De La Liberte [Second Discourse: On Liberty]." Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme [Seven Discourses on Man]. Paris, 1738, no. 2.

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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.

Jonathan Swift

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Swift, Johnathan. "Dialogue III." Polite Conversation. London: Charles Wittinham & Co., 1738.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Polite Conversation." Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions Servants and Other Works, edited by Valerie Rumbold. Cambridge University Press, 2013, no. 3.

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Use, do not abuse... Neither abstinence not excess ever renders man happy.

Voltaire

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Voltaire. "Cinquieme discours: sur la nature de plaisir." Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme. 1738.

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Teach me to feel another's wo,
To hide the fault I see:
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.

Alexander Pope

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Pope, Alexander. "The Universal Prayer." London: R. Dodsley, 1738, I. 37-40.

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He was a bold Man that first eat an oyster.

Jonathan Swift

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Swift, Johnathan. "Dialogue III." Polite Conversation. London: Charles Wittinham & Co., 1738.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Polite Conversation." Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions Servants and Other Works, edited by Valerie Rumbold. Cambridge University Press, 2013, no. 2.

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Who has deceiv’d thee so oft as thy self?

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1738.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Keep your eye wide open before Marriage, half shut afterwards.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1738.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Search others for their Virtues, thyself for thy Vices.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1738.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Wink at small faults-remember thou hast great ones.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1738.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Voltaire

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Voltaire. "Sixieme Discours: Sur la Nature de l'Homme [Sixth Discourse: On the Nature of Man]." Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme [Seven Discourses on Man]. 1738, no. 6.