Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
William Penn
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- In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
- For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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