That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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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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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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