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

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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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
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

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

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