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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves

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