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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

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