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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
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
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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