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Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice. Henry Home.

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Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing: for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

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Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing.