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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong

She abounds with lucious faults.

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