He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
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