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

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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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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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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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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