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of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness
of the flesh.
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Just as poor families have dutiful children, so too there are loyal ministers in troubled times.
A dutiful child will have dutiful children; a disobedient one will be disobeyed.
Dutiful children are their parent's pride; a family in harmony can accomplish anything.
Filial piety moves Heaven.
... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ...
When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no healt ...
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair,
Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
A widow has two duties of a contradictory nature--she is a mother, and she ought to exert a father's power.
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