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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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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
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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