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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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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch 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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value

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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