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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.

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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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue

Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.

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