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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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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing

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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