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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth

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