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Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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

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