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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality

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