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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue

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