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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
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.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try

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