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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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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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice 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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach

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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