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think better of

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think better of something
to decide not to do something you had intended to do. I nearly told him I was leaving, but then I thought better of it.
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I think better of you for looking steadily to the needful.
Think better of it, Barbara, and pay no more heed to foolish advice and calumny, but read your book again, and read it with attention.
Often enough when the first of the month came round and I applied to him for my wage, he would only blow through his nose at me and stare me down, but before the week was out he was sure to think better of it, bring me my four-penny piece, and repeat his orders to look out for "the seafaring man with one leg.
 
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