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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
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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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose 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
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

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