Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. — Quoted

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“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”

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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Health

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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Anger

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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Learning

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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Friendship