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

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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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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
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

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

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