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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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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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
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
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron

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