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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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