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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.

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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
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner

Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.

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