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

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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk

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