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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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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
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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