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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing

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