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

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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself

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

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