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

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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law

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

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