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The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.
The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?
Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too
bus to take care of his tools.
No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.
No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.
I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why.
[I wept when I was born and every read more
I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why.
[I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart from it.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above
rubies.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above
rubies.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?