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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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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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb

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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