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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work

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