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Richard Whately Quotes: The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.
         

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.


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To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.



Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.



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Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.



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To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.



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All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.





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