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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN

Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
QUINTILIAN

Poet Quick Writing Yourself
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
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
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue

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

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