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... Trials Trifles Trouble Truisms Trust Truth Twilight Tyranny Unbelief Uncertainty Understanding Unhappiness Union, and Unity Unkindness Usefulness Usurer W. Vagrant VainGlory Valentine Valor Vanity Variety Vengeance Verbosity Vice.
... Trials Trifles Trouble Truisms Trust Truth Twilight Tyranny Unbelief Uncertainty Understanding Unhappiness Union, and Unity Unkindness Usefulness Usurer W. Vagrant VainGlory Valentine Valor Vanity Variety Vengeance Verbosity Vice.
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... vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.—Addison. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of twenty ...
... vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.—Addison. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of twenty ...
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... vice; it whitens only the hair.—J. P. Senn. Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health.—Some men are born old, and some never grow so.—Tryon Edwards. A person is always startled when lie hears himself seriously ...
... vice; it whitens only the hair.—J. P. Senn. Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health.—Some men are born old, and some never grow so.—Tryon Edwards. A person is always startled when lie hears himself seriously ...
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... vice of little people.—Montaigne. Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.— G. S. Hillard. It is by attempting to reach the top at a ...
... vice of little people.—Montaigne. Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.— G. S. Hillard. It is by attempting to reach the top at a ...
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... vice. —Johnson. Amusement to an observing mind is study.—Disraeli. It is doing some service to humanity to amuse innocently; and they know very little of society who think we can boar to be always employed, either in duties or ...
... vice. —Johnson. Amusement to an observing mind is study.—Disraeli. It is doing some service to humanity to amuse innocently; and they know very little of society who think we can boar to be always employed, either in duties or ...
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