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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible

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