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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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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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

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

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