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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

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend

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