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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
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
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

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