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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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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
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
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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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Crowd Journey Seclusion
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories

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

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