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The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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