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One today is worth two tomorrows.
Topic: Tomorrow
Source: Poor Richard's Almanac
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A small leak will sink a great ship.
Topic: Trifles
Source: None
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For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail.
Topic: Trifles
Source: None
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Little strokes fell great oaks.
Topic: Trifles
Source: None
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Topic: Trouble
Source: None
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We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang
separately.
Topic: Unity
Source: to John Hancock at the signing of the Declaration of Independence
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Topic: Value
Source: None
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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Topic: Vice
Source: Poor Richard's Almanac
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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Topic: Vices
Source: None
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They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
Topic: Vigilance
Source: None
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Topic: Want
Source: None
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
Topic: Want
Source: None
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Topic: War
Source: None
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Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of
Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect
with a thousand years.
Topic: Washington, George
Source: Letter to Washington
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Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
Topic: Waste
Source: None
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If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to
t'other world?
Topic: Wealth
Source: Poor Richard
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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None
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He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None
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He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None
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If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Topic: Wickedness
Source: None
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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
Topic: Wisdom
Source: None
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If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.
Topic: Wishes
Source: Poor Richard
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30, the wit; at 40, the judgment.
Topic: Wit
Source: None
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An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.
Topic: Wives
Source: Poor Richard
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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Topic: Work
Source: Poor Richard
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Handle your tools without mittens.
Topic: Work
Source: Poor Richard (preface)
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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss
and work twelve hours a day.
Topic: Work
Source: Poor Richard (preface)
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In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
Topic: World
Source: None
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Topic: Worry
Source: None
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He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
Topic: Worth
Source: The Whistle
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Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Topic: Writer
Source: None
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At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
Topic: Years
Source: None
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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
Topic: Yield
Source: None
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