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discourages

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Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. George Mason

All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea – encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them. Margaret Thatcher

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English. Ernest Istook

Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do! Helen Fisher

Adversity, Citizen Deputies, discourages none but contemptible peoples. Benito Juárez

Nothing discourages a child so much as the impossibility of pleasing. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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