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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.

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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
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
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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 soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend

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