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

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves

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