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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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

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