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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
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
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
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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

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