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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent 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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

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