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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

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