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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
William Rounseville Alger
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Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
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I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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Laws are the silent assessors of God.
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