Be saving, but not at the ...

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.
 Joseph Joubert

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
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The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
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It is always our inabilities that vex us.
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