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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubl

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. – Benjamin Franklin

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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. – Benjamin Franklin

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. – Benjamin Franklin

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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. – Jean De La Bruyere

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To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. – Claudius

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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. – Johann von Goethe

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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldnt really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. – Johann von Goethe

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