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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
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
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature

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