Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 499
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Outward perfection without inward goodness sets but the blacker dye on the mind's deformity.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 499
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It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 104
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There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 135
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Bootless grief hurts a man's self, but patience makes a jest of an injury.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 207
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Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.Robert Chamberlain · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 324
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