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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

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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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

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