Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIANLet us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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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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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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