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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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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories

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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