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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

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