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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
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 prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom

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