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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
(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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
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
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

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