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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
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
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
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
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

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