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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

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