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

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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
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
A liar ought to 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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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

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

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