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

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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching

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

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