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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try

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