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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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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle

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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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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