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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.

Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Once they get their hooks into you, you’re a dead pigeon.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

The cautious seldom err.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.