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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 great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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 the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves

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

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