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

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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse

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

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