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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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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality

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