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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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

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