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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 the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise

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