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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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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
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
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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

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