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

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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
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching

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