"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care."
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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.“
-William Penn
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