Weekend Inspiration

I should really frame the following for my desk:

A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life.

1)  Never put off until to-morrow what you can do to-day. 

2)  Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 

3)  Never spend your money before you have it. 

4)  Never buy what you don’t want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 

5)  Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 

6)  We never repent of having eaten too little. 

7)  Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 

8)  How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 

9)  Take things always by the smooth handle. 

10) When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. 

 Thomas Jefferson, 1825

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