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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

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