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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

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Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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Man Mistake Please Woman Worst
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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Easy Goodness Rule
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Animal Away Wolf
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
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You drown him by your talk.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom
How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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Bury Genius Greatness Often
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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Manner Mud Vulgar
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Character Deserve Disgrace Establishment Ourselves
No man has perpetual good fortune.
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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

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