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

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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
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
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature

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