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• He that teaches himself has a fool for a master. FRANKLIN
• He that teaches himself has a fool for a master. -- Benjamin Frankli
• Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. -- Poor Richard's Almanac
• He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
• Who knows a fool, must know his brother; for one will recommend another. -- Poor Richard
• A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that 's never read,-- To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
  This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school....
• He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xix, 17
• But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words?
  Hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?...