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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
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
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
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
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

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