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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
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
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

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