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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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 prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman

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