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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

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