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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
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
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
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
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself

She abounds with lucious faults.

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