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

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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
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories

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

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