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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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