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

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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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself

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

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