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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule

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