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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

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