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

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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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 wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb

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

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