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

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

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom

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