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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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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study

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