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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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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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

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