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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
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
(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
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories

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