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That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
Richard Whately
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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
Economist
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Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
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Better too much form than too little.
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As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
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The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.
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When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.
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Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.
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The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
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