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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

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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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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

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