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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
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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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves

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