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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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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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom 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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb

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

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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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