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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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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope

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