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«Peace is costly but it is worth the expense»
Author: African Proverb | About: Peace | Keywords: costly, expense
«Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.»
Author: Bob Talbert | Keywords: costly
«In a party tent poised somewhere between romance and avarice, an auctioneer hammered out the sale of the first of the costly baubles that were scattered as love tokens across the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.»
«Morality is a private and costly luxury»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Luxury, Morality | Keywords: costly
«Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.»
«In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; / But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.»
«Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.»
«Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.»
«Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance»
«No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism»

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