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

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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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 must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work

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

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