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

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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide

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

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