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

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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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 religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection

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

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