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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

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