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.
QUINTILIANLet us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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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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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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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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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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