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35.

Be accurate, but not over formal.

36.

Do little things well.

37.

Never sell your health for money,

or for pleasure.

38.

First understand what thou hast to do, then fall to thy work.

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You can never make a good bargain in the purchase of bad articles.

43.

Make your business your pleasure.

44.

Never hesitate to demand what is

your own.

45.

Numberless are the roads to ruinavoid them all.

46.

If a good man thrive, all thrive with

him.

47.

That is honest gain by which no one is injured.

48.

Be not made a beggar by living upon credit.

49.

He that does not rise early, never does a good day's work.

50.

Good husbandry is the first step to

riches.

51.

A trade is an estate for life.

52.

Great pain, and little gain will make a man soon weary.

53.

A man's pride will bring him to poverty and crime.

54.

You had better be poor, than lie, steal, or cheat.

55.

Dishonesty will end in infamy.

56.

Commerce makes all the world a

city.

57.

He that is greedy of gain, troubleth his own house.

58.

You cannot steal time of Him, who saith, "time shall be no more," so remember the Lord's day, to keep it holy.

59.

Be not surety above thy power.

60.

What will it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul.

61.

Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

62.

Remember the Lord giveth thee power to get wealth.

63.

Having begun a good work, be not weary in well-doing.

64.

If any provide not for his own household, he is worse than an infidel.

65.

It is the interest of man to be humane.

LAW.

1.

There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust.

2.

He who vindicates the law, does every man a kindness.

3.

A right cannot be founded in a wrong.

4.

People know, love, and defend their customs better than their laws.

5.

A State neither loses any of its rights, nor is discharged from any of its obligations, by a change in its government.

6.

Public opinion is the moral, and war the penal sanction of the laws of nations,

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