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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning

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