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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

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