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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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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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
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
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
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
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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

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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