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«Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.»
«I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.»
«A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ''personal characteristics.''»
«Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.»
«By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.»
Author: French Proverb
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«A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.»
«Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end»
«Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters»
«Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity»
«Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men who can forgive sins, and you will have sins in abundance»