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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.

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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself

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