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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

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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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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 should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
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
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

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

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