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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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A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend

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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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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