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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.

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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning

Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.

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