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The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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

The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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

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