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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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