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

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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner

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

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