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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.

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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present

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