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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron

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