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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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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 much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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