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

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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
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
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
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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

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

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