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

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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth

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

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