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

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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
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
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope

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