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

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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk

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

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