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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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