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My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow…

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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those…
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where…
My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care…
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity…
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted…
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor…
As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and…
For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should…
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and…

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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged… — Thomas Hobbes
A teacher should be sparing of his smile. — William Cowper
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Lyndon B. Johnson
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Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They… — Jamie Fellner
If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a… — Andrew Johnson
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths,… — Robert Browning
Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week… — John Fletcher
Give us enough but with a sparing hand. — Edmund Waller
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing… — Hilary Mantel
A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that… — Mike Farrell

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