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

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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
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law

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

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