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Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
Hannah More
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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.
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