She abounds with lucious faults.
QUINTILIANOur 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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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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