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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
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
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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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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