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

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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win

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

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