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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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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
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
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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 the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron

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