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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
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

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