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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
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
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

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