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| Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time! |
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| Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. |
| Children; Truth |
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| Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust |
| Money; Trust |
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| Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. |
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| Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. |
| Common sense; Science |
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| Self-abnegation, that rare virtue, that good men preach and good women practice |
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| Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families. |
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| Simple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. |
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| Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. |
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| Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. |
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| Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. |
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| Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. |
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| Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still! |
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| Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features. |
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| Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding |
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| Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise. |
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| Talking is one of the fine arts - the noblest, the most important, the most difficult - and its fluent harmonies may be spoiled by the intrusion of a single harsh note |
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| The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books |
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