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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
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
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide

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