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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

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