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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter 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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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 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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself

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