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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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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
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
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
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb

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

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