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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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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