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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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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
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 laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself

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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