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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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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature

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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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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