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Alle vil leve længe, men ingen vil være gammel
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Den fraværende er aldrig uden fejl. Ej heller den tilstedeværende uden undskyldning.
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Den kloge behøver intet råd. Tåben vil ikke tage imod det.
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Den, som bliver forelsket i sig selv, har ingen rivaler.
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Den, som ikke vil rådes, kan ikke hjælpes.
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Den, som lever på håbet, dør fastende
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Der findes tre trofaste venner: en gammel hustru, en gammel hund og rede penge
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Der har aldrig været en god krig eller en dårlig fred
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Det bedste er det billigste
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Det er dårlig opførsel at bringe en idiot til tavshed, og grusomhed at lade ham fortsætte.
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Det, som begynder i vrede, ender i skam.
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Elsker du livet? Så spild ikke tiden, for den er det stof, livet er lavet af
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En enlig mand har ikke nær den værdi, som han ville have, hvis han var gift. han er et ufuldstændigt dyr. Han ligner den ene halvdel af en saks.
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En god samvittighed er uafbrudt jul.
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En landmand mellem to advokater er som en fisk mellem to katte.
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En ungkarl er et ufuldstændigt dyr; han ligner halvdelen af en saks.
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Erfaringens skole har høje udgifter, men for tosser findes der ingen anden.
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Et uordentligt skrivebord er et tegn på en ordentlig tankegang.
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Godt gjort er bedre end godt sagt.
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Gud helbreder, og lægen tager honoraret.
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Gud kurerer, lægen tager honoraret.
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Gæster og fisk begynder at lugte efter tre dage.
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Han var så lærd, at han kunne sige hat på ni sprog, men så uvidende, at han købte en ko til at ride på.
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Hold øjnene vidt åbne inden du gifter dig, men luk dem halvt i, når du er blevet gift.
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Hvem har bedraget dig så ofte som du selv?
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Hvis du vil vide, hvad penge er værd - så forsøg at låne nogen.
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Ingenting er sikkert her i verden, undtagen døden og skatterne
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Løg kan tilmed få arvinger og enker til at græde
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Man kunne opfostre to børn for, hvad det koster at have en last
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Pas på en ung læge og en gammel barber.
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Pas på med små udgifter; en lille læk vil sænke et stort skib.
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Rige enker er de eneste som sælges fordrukne til nypris.
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Skjul ikke dine evner. De er givet for at blive brugt. Til hvad nytte er et solur i skyggen?
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Skriv i sand de uretfærdigheder, du møder - mejsl i sten de velgerninger, du kommer ud for.
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Vask din finger før du peger på mine pletter.
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Velsignet er den, som intet forventet, for han vil aldrig blive skuffet.
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Øl er beviset på, at Gud elsker os og vil, at vi skal være lykkelige.
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors
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A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
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Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
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Do'st thou love life, then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of
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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
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Fatigue is the best pillow.
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Fish and visitors smell in three days.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.
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God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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He who won't be counseled can't be helped.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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Hunger is the best pickle.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing
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In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards
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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
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Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it
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Necessity never made a good bargain
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Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it
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One good Husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are the more they're valued.
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
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Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
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To err is human, to repent divine; to persist, devilish.
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
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To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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You may delay, but time will not.
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(1706 -1790) statsmand og opfinder, født i Boston. Franklin var en af "de grundlovsgivende fædre" i USA. Han underskrev Frihedserklæringen og Forfarningen og tjente som den nye nations dygtigste diplomat. Franklins formelle skolegang endte tidligt, men hans udannelse aldrig. Han troede på, "at visdommens dør lukkes aldrig" og han læste ale bøger, han kom i nærheden af. Han lærte sig selv simpel algebra og geometri, navigation, logik, historie, videnskab og 5 fremmedsprog. Han havde en simpel opskrift på succes. Han troede på, at succesfulde mennesker arbejdede lidt hårdere end andre. Og det gjorde Franklin. Ha opbyggede en succesrig trykke- og publiseringsvirksomhed i Philadelphia; han ledede videnskabelige studier af elektricitet og gjorde flere vigtige opdagelser; han medvirkede til etablering af Pennsylvanias første universitet og Amerikas første byhospital. Han organiserede også landets første lånebibliotek. Han opfandt bl.a. en ovn og bifockle briller. Thomas Jefferson kaldte Benjamin Franklin "det største menneske og den største pryd på denne tid og for detland, hvori han levede".