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"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."

"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."

"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."

"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want."

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."
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