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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
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Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
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Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive.
Source: The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 65 -
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
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Because the gift of Song was chiefly lent, To give consoling music for the joys We lack, and not for those which we possess.
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Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
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Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
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Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.
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Before confessing, be perfectly certain that you do not wish to be forgiven.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
― Austin O'Malley
American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932) -
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
Source: The Conquest Of Happiness -
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
Original:Bettler aber sollte man ganz abschaffen! Wahrlich, man ärgert sich ihnen zu geben und ärgert sich ihnen nicht zu geben.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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