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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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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
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
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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

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