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She abounds with lucious faults.

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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
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
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory

She abounds with lucious faults.

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