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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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