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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
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
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

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