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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
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
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary

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