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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

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