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

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

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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 should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please

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