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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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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish

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