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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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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching

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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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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