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The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict

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