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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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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right

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