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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom

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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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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