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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.
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Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
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Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.
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More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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