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

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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
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
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value

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