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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish

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