Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. - Richard Whately - Quotesmemo.com

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Richard Whately

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

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It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness.

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All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

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Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

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It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

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Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

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Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In the home, parents should teach their children the great lessons of life. Home should be the center of one’s earthly experience, where love and mutual respect are appropriately blended.

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Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

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