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

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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right

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

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