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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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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner

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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