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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.

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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue

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