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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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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late

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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