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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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 may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

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