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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity 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
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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Accompany Average Impression Support
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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 liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

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