"Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty."
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"A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years."
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"Great is the strife between beauty and modesty."
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"A woman is always buying something."
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"If you would marry suitably, marry your equal."
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"I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest."
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"Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time."
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"The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor."
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"Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire."
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"If the art is concealed, it succeeds."
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"The spirits run riot in youth."
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"The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]"
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"Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit."
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"By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows."
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"Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit."
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"Idleness ruins the constitution"
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"These are the evils which result from gossiping habits."
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"A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it."
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"The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid."
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"As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison."
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