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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
[ Dress ]
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
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But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
[ Duty ]
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
[ Manners ]
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Crime generally punishes itself.
[ Crime and Criminals ]
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
[ Communication ]
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Fear guides more than gratitude.
[ Fear ]
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
[ Fortune ]
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
[ Girls ]
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
[ Counsel ]
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
[ Zeal ]
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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
[ Appearance ]
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
[ Wealth ]
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
[ Grief ]
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
[ Passion ]
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
[ Travel and Tourism ]
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
[ Work ]
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
[ Modesty ]
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No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
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People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
[ Desire ]
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People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
[ Example ]
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
[ Persecution ]
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
[ Pity ]
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
[ Money ]
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Tenderness is a virtue.
[ Tenderness ]
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
[ Ambition ]
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
[ Laughter ]
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
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The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
[ Doctors ]
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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
[ Correction ]
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
[ Riches ]
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
[ Laughter ]
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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
[ Laughter ]
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
[ Psychology ]
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Those that think must govern those that toil.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so.
[ Drugs ]
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
[ Wisdom ]
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
[ Mind ]
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Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
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When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
[ Borrowing ]
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Who can direct when all pretend to know?
[ Management ]
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
[ Wisdom ]
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
[ Character ]
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