Peale, Thomas Jefferson, 1803
Thomas Jefferson's manifesto ...
A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life
Never put off
till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
Never trouble
another for what you can do yourself.
Never spend
your money before you have it.
Never buy what
you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
Pride costs us
more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
We never repent
of having eaten too little.
Nothing is
troublesome that we do willingly.
How much pain
have cost us the evils which have never happened.
Take things
always by their smooth handle.
When angry,
count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
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