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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue

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