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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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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
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 liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity

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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