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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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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
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

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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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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