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

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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
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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 prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth

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