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You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.